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The image has a logo ‘BJP 4 All’ and the post seems to have first appeared on a Facebook page by the same name. This was on October 28<\/a> and the claim has drawn over 500 shares since. The post has been circulated by other pages<\/a> and several individual users<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n

A similar claim floating on Facebook adds the word ‘Rohingya’<\/a> to the post, suggesting that ‘European Times’ termed Indian voters the most foolish in the world because they vote for politicians lobbying for ‘illegal Rohingya intruders’.<\/p>\n

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‘European Times’ doesn’t exist <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Alt News found that the claim is manufactured. There is no media outlet called ‘European Times.’ However, there is a similarly named magazine –\u00a0The European Times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>We searched for multiple keywords on Google – India\/Indian voters, illegal intruders\/migrants – using the syntax site:european-times.com, but did not find any related report on the magazine.<\/p>\n

Moreover, reverse searching the image of EC President\u00a0Jean-Claude Juncker reveals<\/a> that the photograph was taken on August 30, 2018 by\u00a0Reuters\u00a0<\/em>photojournalist\u00a0Aris Oikonomou. It was clicked during the annual seminar of the European Commission College in Genval.<\/p>\n

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Since the conclusion of the recent assembly elections, a new trend of misinformation is noticeable. The example above tries to blame voters by questioning their intellect. Earlier, a false report attributed to\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>claimed that the publication praised PM Modi.\u00a0In several other instances, we observed that false narratives of riots<\/a> and Pakistani flags<\/a> being raised post BJP’s loss in the recent state assembly elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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