{"id":100329,"date":"2021-08-13T16:12:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T10:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=100329"},"modified":"2021-08-13T16:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T10:42:22","slug":"fake-tweet-of-pakistani-player-arshad-nadeems-thanking-neeraj-chopra-media-and-journalists-falls-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fake-tweet-of-pakistani-player-arshad-nadeems-thanking-neeraj-chopra-media-and-journalists-falls-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Media, journalists fall for fake account in Arshad Nadeem’s name thanking Neeraj Chopra"},"content":{"rendered":"

A name that began dominating news headlines following Indian athlete Neeraj Chopra’s historic gold medal win in javelin throw at Tokyo Olympics was Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem who finished 5th in the event. A photo of Nadeem and Chopra from the 2018 Asian Games went viral<\/a> earlier, in which the latter won gold and the former won the bronze medal. After the javelin throw competition at the Tokyo Olympics, tweets from accounts claiming to be Arshad Nadeem started popping up on social media. In one of the tweets, there was a newspaper clipping where Neeraj Chopra was quoted<\/a> as saying, “It would have been nice if Arshad Nadeem was also on the podium, it would have been a great day for Asia<\/a>.” The clip was shared by a Twitter account named Arshad Nadeem with the caption, “Thank you Neeraj Chopra for these words.” This tweet<\/a> has garnered more than 59,000 likes and has been retweeted more than 3,800 times.<\/p>\n

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The Lallantop<\/a> wrote an article based on this tweet with the headline, \u201cWhat did Neeraj do that Arshad Nadeem tweeted and said thank you?.” This tweet was also featured by the outlet in one of their videos. “Arshad has thanked Neeraj Chopra for this. While tweeting a newspaper clipping of this news, he wrote, ‘Thank you, Neeraj Chopra, for these words.'”<\/p>\n