{"id":20967,"date":"2018-10-18T19:41:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=20967"},"modified":"2018-10-18T19:41:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:11:44","slug":"superhero-elephant-saving-bus-from-falling-into-a-ditch-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/superhero-elephant-saving-bus-from-falling-into-a-ditch-not-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Superhero elephant saving bus from falling into a ditch? Not really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;\u0909\u0924\u094d\u0924\u0930\u093e\u0916\u0902\u0921 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0916\u093e\u0908 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0917\u093f\u0930 \u0930\u0939\u0940 \u092c\u0938 \u0915\u094b \u0930\u094b\u0915 \u0915\u0930 \u0907\u0938 \u0939\u093e\u0925\u0940 \u0928\u0947 \u0932\u094b\u0917\u094b \u0915\u0940 \u091c\u093e\u0928 \u092c\u091a\u093e\u0908 \u091c\u092f \u0917\u0923\u0947\u0936\u093e&#8221; (This elephant has saved lives of people by stopping a bus from rolling into a trench in Uttarakhand. Jai Ganesha -translated).\u00a0<\/em>An image of an elephant pushing a bus was shared with the aforementioned claim on October 16 by the Facebook page, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/I.Support.Ajit.Doval\/photos\/a.1118712004849394\/1932499153470671\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Support Ajit Doval<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/I.Support.Ajit.Doval\/photos\/a.1118712004849394\/1932499153470671\/?type=3\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/I.Support.Ajit.Doval\/photos\/a.1118712004849394\/1932499153470671\/?type=3\"><p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/I.Support.Ajit.Doval\/\">I Support Doval<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/I.Support.Ajit.Doval\/photos\/a.1118712004849394\/1932499153470671\/?type=3\">Monday, 15 October 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>An<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/rangilumarugujarat\/permalink\/914114162108116\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> individual user<\/a> had also shared the same image which has garnered more than 7,600 likes on Facebook.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Debunked seven months ago<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Earlier in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/old-picture-of-bangladesh-viral-as-jharjhand-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March this year<\/a>, this image was shared with a similar claim stating that it is an image of an elephant saving 47 passengers travelling in bus in Jharkhand which was about to fall in a ditch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JANJANTAKMAGAZINE\/posts\/1439490609406818:0\" data-width=\"auto\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JANJANTAKMAGAZINE\/posts\/1439490609406818:0\"><p>\u091d\u093e\u0930\u0916\u0923\u094d\u0921 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0916\u093e\u0908 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0917\u093f\u0930 \u0930\u0939\u0940 \u092c\u0938 \u0915\u094b \u0930\u094b\u0915 \u0915\u0930 \u090f\u0915 \u0939\u093e\u0925\u0940 \u0928\u0947 \u092c\u091a\u093e\u0908 47 \u091c\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0964<br \/>\n\u0917\u0923\u092a\u0924\u093f \u092c\u093e\u092c\u093e \u0915\u0947 \u0907\u0938 \u0905\u0935\u0924\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f \u090f\u0915 \u0932\u093e\u0907\u0915 \u0924\u094b \u092c\u0928\u0924\u093e \u0939 \u092c\u094b\u0938\u0964<br \/>\n\u0905\u0917\u0930 \u0932\u0940\u0916 \u0938\u0915\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u094b \u0924\u094b \u0915\u092e\u0947\u0928\u094d\u091f \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u091c\u0930\u0942\u0930 \u0932\u094b\u0916\u0947-&#8220;\u0917\u0923\u092a\u0924\u093f \u092c\u093e\u092c\u093e \u092e\u094b\u0930\u092f\u093e&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JANJANTAKMAGAZINE\/\">JAN JAN TAK<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JANJANTAKMAGAZINE\/posts\/1439490609406818:0\">Tuesday, 28 March 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alt News found that the image is neither of a bus falling into a trench nor is it from India. An article published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/2007\/11\/16\/cyclone_kills_over_1000_in_bangladesh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Star<\/em><\/a>, a Canadian daily had captioned the same image,<em> &#8220;An elephant pushes a stranded bus as it is employed to clear a road in Barishal, 120 kilometers south of Bangladesh&#8217;s capital Dhaka, Friday, Nov. 16, 2007. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apimages.com\/metadata\/Index\/Bangladesh-Cyclone\/fe5348e1bfcd4226988af1ef593af2b7\/2\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"image__credit\">(<span class=\"image__credit__source\">AP PHOTO<\/span>)<\/span><\/a>&#8220;.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20986\" style=\"width: 2384px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20986\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Selection_214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2384\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Selection_214.jpg 2384w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Selection_214-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Selection_214-768x261.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Selection_214-1024x348.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Selection_214-696x237.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Selection_214-1068x363.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Selection_214-1235x420.jpg 1235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2384px) 100vw, 2384px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: Associated Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Several images having sentimental value are circulated on a regular basis to garner traction on social media. Although innocuous in nature, users are encouraged to cross-check any such image before sharing it on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u0909\u0924\u094d\u0924\u0930\u093e\u0916\u0902\u0921 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0916\u093e\u0908 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0917\u093f\u0930 \u0930\u0939\u0940 \u092c\u0938 \u0915\u094b \u0930\u094b\u0915 \u0915\u0930 \u0907\u0938 \u0939\u093e\u0925\u0940 \u0928\u0947 \u0932\u094b\u0917\u094b \u0915\u0940 \u091c\u093e\u0928 \u092c\u091a\u093e\u0908 \u091c\u092f \u0917\u0923\u0947\u0936\u093e&#8221; (This elephant has saved lives of people by stopping a bus from rolling into a trench in Uttarakhand. Jai Ganesha -translated).\u00a0An image of an elephant pushing a bus was shared with the aforementioned claim on October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":20993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-20967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Elephant.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20967"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21039,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967\/revisions\/21039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20967"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=20967"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}