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One Indian political party included\u201d<\/em> tweeted Pai while sharing an article listing the ten most corrupt political parties in the world in 2018. The list was published in July 2018 and featured the Indian National Congress among other parties from different parts of the world. According to this list, INC ranks 2nd among the most corrupt political parties of the world. Pai has now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVMohandasPai\/status\/1041512039049519104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deleted his tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/paitweet2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/paitweet2.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/paitweet2-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>FAKE NEWS WEBSITE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcnewshub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>BBC News Hub<\/em><\/a> is a dubious website that is not related in any way to the <em>British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).\u00a0<\/em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcnewshub.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;About us&#8217;<\/a> section is equally hilarious. It states, <em>\u201cbbcnewshub.com is best place to provide complete, brief, correct, healthy and strong content for the respectable visitors which are related to all over the world. It provides the national and international current and all type of information<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19739\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/aboutbbcnewshub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/aboutbbcnewshub.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/aboutbbcnewshub-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/aboutbbcnewshub-492x420.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The poorly worded article is full of grammatical mistakes. The article starts with a laughable description of political parties, stating that \u201c<em>a political party is a union of people who work conjointly and struggle against one another to win political power; political parties do hire member or contenders, these parties are also to run and organize elections to decide the government of any country in the world.<\/em>\u201d It goes on to describe Indian National Congress as \u201c<em>the powerful reigning party in India<\/em>\u201d and then announces that \u201c<em>every general election is leaded by Indian National Congress due to its majority in most regions<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to imagine that anyone would fall for this website after reading the first few sentences. Even the title reads as <em>Top 10 list of most corrupt political \u201cparty\u201d in the world<\/em>. But T.V. Mohandas Pai had plenty of company in others who also took such an obviously fake website at face value and shared its list. From an author of fake news website <em>Postcard News<\/em> to Vivek Agnihotri and Subramanian Swamy, the list is long.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/collage_tweets-1024x614.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/collage_tweets-1024x614.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/collage_tweets-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/collage_tweets-768x461.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/collage_tweets-696x418.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/collage_tweets-1068x641.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/collage_tweets-700x420.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/collage_tweets.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/swamy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/swamy.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/swamy-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>PAI DEFENDS TWEET<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Social media users brought it to Mohandas Pai&#8217;s notice that he has tweeted a link to a fake news website. This did not seem to deter Pai who chose to defend his tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fake site or not, most of the political parties there are over 50 years, their history is known, their corruption is also known <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uyTxPx8AV9\">https:\/\/t.co\/uyTxPx8AV9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mohandas Pai (@TVMohandasPai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVMohandasPai\/status\/1041596032172343297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trushar Barot, Digital Launch Editor with BBC also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Trushar\/status\/1041597594777145344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted to Mohandas Pai<\/a> requesting him to delete his tweet as it could lead to perpetuation of this misinformation, to which Pai replied,<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Why don\u2019t you officially deny this and say that you have nothing to do with the address? It is your responsibility to look after your brand! Even you publish wrong news and people protest you just do not care too. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mXmzJecOWj\">https:\/\/t.co\/mXmzJecOWj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mohandas Pai (@TVMohandasPai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVMohandasPai\/status\/1041598198656196608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was only later in the day that Mohandas Pai deleted his tweet.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>BBC NEWS HUB: A REPOSITORY OF FAKE NEWS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In November last year, the same website listed PM Narendra Modi among <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcnewshub.com\/top-10-most-corrupt-prime-minister-in-the-world-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTen most corrupt Prime Ministers in the world\u201d<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/modicorruptbbc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/modicorruptbbc.jpg 538w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/modicorruptbbc-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/modicorruptbbc-437x420.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In yet another &#8216;list&#8217;, Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s family ranked 2nd among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcnewshub.com\/top-10-most-corrupt-families-in-the-world-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Top 10 Most Corrupt Families In The World 2018&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/modifamilycorrupt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/modifamilycorrupt.jpg 536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/modifamilycorrupt-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/modifamilycorrupt-438x420.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mohandas Pai is no stranger to this tendency of falling for fake news. Earlier, the former Infosys director had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/times-how-strikes-again-hoodwinks-wion-pakistani-media-and-social-media-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retweeted a tweet<\/a> by <em>Times How<\/em>, a parody account of <em>Times Now<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19745\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/mpai.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/mpai.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/mpai-300x287.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/09\/mpai-440x420.jpeg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several media organisations including Alt News have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/rahul-gandhi-fan-page-posts-fake-news-of-modi-among-most-corrupt-prime-ministers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">busted the claims<\/a> of this fake news website in the past,\u00a0yet social media users continue to fall for it. In most cases when people come across content that reinforces their beliefs and prejudices, they share it without exercising any critical evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fake news website BBCNewsHub.com has struck again claiming among other people, T.V. Mohandas Pai and BJP MP, Subramanian Swamy as its latest victims. \u201cShocking list. One Indian political party included\u201d tweeted Pai while sharing an article listing the ten most corrupt political parties in the world in 2018. 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