{"id":124686,"date":"2022-08-05T13:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=124686"},"modified":"2022-08-05T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:16:21","slug":"morphes-news-paper-clip-of-toi-shared-as-5g-spectrum-auction-billions-loss-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/morphes-news-paper-clip-of-toi-shared-as-5g-spectrum-auction-billions-loss-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphed cutting of The Times of India newspaper viral amidst 5G spectrum auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

An alleged cutting of the ‘Times Business’ page of ‘The Times of India’ (Chennai edition) is viral on social media. It is written on the page that the government has incurred a loss of 2.8 lakh crores in the auction of the 5G spectrum. Furthermore, the number ‘2800000000000000’ is written in the headline to display the loss. Several social media users, leaders and accounts associated with the Congress party shared it as the ‘5G scam’ of the BJP.<\/p>\n

Writer Ashok Kumar Pandey tweeted the cutting of the newspaper and wrote<\/span><\/span><\/span>, “Count the zeros and tell me, in how many days will the ED raid on The Times?” (Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Congress leader Pankhuri Pathak also tweeted the picture and called it the ‘5G scam.’ (Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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RLD leader and former journalist Prashant Kanojia also made the same claim. (Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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This cutting of the newspaper was tweeted by many social media users including Uttar Pradesh Congress<\/a>, Bihar Youth Congress<\/a>, NSUI Tamil Nadu<\/a>, Madhya Pradesh Congress Sevadal<\/a>, Daman and Diu Congress Sevadal<\/a>, Congress leader Vinay Kumar Dokania<\/a>, and DMK leader T R B Rajaa<\/a>.<\/p>\n