{"id":148461,"date":"2023-02-22T18:05:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T12:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=148461"},"modified":"2023-02-22T18:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T12:35:46","slug":"false-claim-of-yogi-adityanath-offering-80-lakh-rupees-to-smoke-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/false-claim-of-yogi-adityanath-offering-80-lakh-rupees-to-smoke-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Yogi govt didn&#8217;t put out job ad for ganja smokers; false claim by SP media cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">News of a job opening for marijuana smokers with a salary of more than Rs. 80 lakh has been making the rounds on social media recently. It is being claimed that the job opportunity was announced by the Yogi government in Uttar Pradesh.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">The Samajwadi Party media cell shared the graphic and wrote that anything was possible under the Yogi administration. (<\/span><a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/iKWpy\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: underline;vertical-align: baseline\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"border: none;overflow: hidden;width: 598px;height: 800px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-top: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/tlcQPTCgTgN5gp8ycxZYqDfI5eeQYx2Q7xIoqneEp8TA96j7tssclTCiiMtr65rWf3ZPioyz3XpWk8t2K9RmMSe_fXG1QNWmdYQM81KdyxLpMoO24gBaQQWWzGbyUgzTWXczqw1d2_3vbjXPDcGSyg\" width=\"598\" height=\"800\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Nishu Yadav of the Samajwadi Party also made the same claim while tweeting the image. (<\/span><a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/F5Tp8\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: underline;vertical-align: baseline\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"border: none;overflow: hidden;width: 598px;height: 808px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-top: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/esz96dmeXHWxZeIp6I0EtnBezu8Twp067Otrd2pk2dLOKmtxkVaanhp2z6U1f-d1JYkyeZGYl53V4XtP_xF3wTy_SpVESCMfCp4R8RpE-FZEJALIqIS1Bfor2ZSQF2NGC_juBaWJhT2Dahv3HzPfnw\" width=\"598\" height=\"808\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Jeetu Saini, district secretary, Samajwadi Lohia Vahini, Lucknow, also tweeted the graphic and the accompanying claim. (<\/span><a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/HSuna\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: underline;vertical-align: baseline\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"border: none;overflow: hidden;width: 598px;height: 801px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-top: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/dAYNF9moJF2pXh746CAUg1Kv84CKnJkMBfRQx5ilD-8oS8aQKzAHPZjNSyR2iX97rVYJ57cU2c9yoFr99zoy_Mey5BH-FJ-Jt8dwGgYnUEgqqJ3_uIulEYbxV0mg5m231b2Q6CM9FQ6a4M0zMV_MNQ\" width=\"598\" height=\"801\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Fact Check<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">We noticed that the graphic had an ABP News watermark. We checked the Instagram account of the news outlet and found the original image on the ABP News Instagram handle <\/span><a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CotfQyHIrTz\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: underline;vertical-align: baseline\">dated February 16<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">. The caption of the post mentions that a German company named &#8216;Cannamedical&#8217; is looking for a professional to test medical products made from hemp. This news was also <\/span><a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abplive.com\/education\/jobs\/this-company-of-germany-is-giving-88-lakh-rupees-per-month-salary-for-smoking-weed-2335665\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: underline;vertical-align: baseline\">published<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> on the website of ABP News on February 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"border: none;overflow: hidden;width: 598px;height: 965px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-top: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/5FlnbYh2ezaxAXWblRTPKIe_-xhRUm-VvwOd1S3TD7HM7t54S2q8zI6xnHxwJWo1CgrctTLAQBvOnag0zk-gbNmwUue4G9r7Cx9klEeG_Zz9i2veyR3d0GjHvVJ60YF50lbA1nj-RWajar5wMwV5uQ\" width=\"598\" height=\"965\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">This was also shared by the Twitter handle of the National Post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">A German cannabis company is looking to hire a \u201ccannabis sommelier\u201d with a salary of up to $142,500 a year \u2014 via <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Montserrat, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGrowthOp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheGrowthOp<\/a><a style=\"font-family: Montserrat, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BU04TUxyUk\">https:\/\/t.co\/BU04TUxyUk<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\u2014 National Post (@nationalpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nationalpost\/status\/1625881138412544002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">To sum it up, the media cell and leaders of the Samajwadi Party falsely circulated the news of a job opening for testing hemp products in Germany linking it to the Yogi Adityanath goverment in Uttar Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of a job opening for marijuana smokers with a salary of more than Rs. 80 lakh has been making the rounds on social media recently. 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