{"id":24335,"date":"2018-12-24T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=24335"},"modified":"2019-03-18T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:46:46","slug":"giriraj-singh-quotes-fake-news-website-term-congress-worlds-2nd-most-corrupt-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/giriraj-singh-quotes-fake-news-website-term-congress-worlds-2nd-most-corrupt-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Giriraj Singh quotes fake news website, terms Congress &#8216;world&#8217;s 2nd most corrupt party&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister and BJP MP Giriraj Singh <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/girirajsinghbjp\/status\/1077046408702763008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> on December 24 &#8211;\u00a0<em>&#8220;Top 10 List of Most Corrupt Political Party in the World 2018 and Rahul Gandhi led congress making it all the way to 2nd spot &#8230;congratulations to the most corrupt political party.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>In a little over two hours, Singh&#8217;s tweet attracted over 1,000 likes and 474 retweets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24342 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/giriraj-singh-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/giriraj-singh-1.png 624w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/giriraj-singh-1-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/giriraj-singh-1-529x420.png 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The BJP MP termed the Congress a &#8220;shame for India&#8221;, basing his claims on an article by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcnewshub.com\/top-10-list-of-most-corrupt-political-party-in-the-world-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;bbcnewshub.com&#8217;<\/a>, titled &#8211;\u00a0<em>&#8220;Top 10 List of Most Corrupt Political Party in the World 2018&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em>The article placed the Congress at the second position.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24338 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/bbc-news-hub-e1545627988175.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/bbc-news-hub-e1545627988175.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/bbc-news-hub-e1545627988175-300x121.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/bbc-news-hub-e1545627988175-768x311.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/bbc-news-hub-e1545627988175-1024x414.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/bbc-news-hub-e1545627988175-696x282.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/bbc-news-hub-e1545627988175-1068x432.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/bbc-news-hub-e1545627988175-1038x420.jpeg 1038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Giriraj Singh shares article by impostor BBC News website<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The list shared by Singh was created by a fake news website posing as\u00a0the\u00a0<em>British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).\u00a0<\/em>The distinction between &#8216;bbcnewshub.com&#8217; and the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bbc.com<\/a>\u00a0website is clear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24339 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/fake-1-e1545628903927.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/fake-1-e1545628903927.jpeg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/fake-1-e1545628903927-300x242.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/fake-1-e1545628903927-768x619.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/fake-1-e1545628903927-696x561.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/fake-1-e1545628903927-521x420.jpeg 521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the poorly worded article is replete with grammatical errors.\u00a0<em>&#8220;&#8230;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,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>reads its first paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>The ludicrous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcnewshub.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018About us\u2019<\/a>\u00a0section of\u00a0<em>BBC News Hub<\/em>\u00a0also gives away its falseness. It states,\u00a0<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 wp-image-24340 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/aboutbbcnewshub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/aboutbbcnewshub.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/12\/aboutbbcnewshub-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Falling for impostor websites &#8211; a recurring exercise<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Alt News had earlier debunked the same list of &#8216;most corrupt political parties in the world&#8217;. Chairman of Manipal Global Education\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mohandas-pai-falls-for-impostor-bbc-website-listing-congress-among-worlds-most-corrupt-parties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mohandas Pai<\/a> had fallen for this article that has been doing rounds on social media since July this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>BBC News Hub<\/em> had <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 noreferrer\">produced one more list<\/a> that placed Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 7th place among the most corrupt politicians worldwide. Another fake news website &#8216;foxnewspoint.com&#8217;, imitating American news organisation\u00a0<em>Fox News,\u00a0<\/em>called PM Modi\u2019s family the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnewspoint.com\/top-10-most-corrupt-families-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second most corrupt political family<\/a>\u00a0in the world.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/altnews.in\/videos\/1712346988876033\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Watch: The menace of impostor websites and parody handles]<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Despite debunking\u00a0<em>BBC News Hub\u00a0<\/em>in the past, Giriraj Singh shared its list to target Congress. The Union Minister had earlier claimed that a tweet by Rahul Gandhi was retweeted by Pakistan&#8217;s official defence account. This too turned out to be false as the handle belonged to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fact-check-did-an-official-pakistani-defence-account-retweet-rahul-gandhis-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online forum<\/a>\u00a0that discussed the country&#8217;s defence issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister and BJP MP Giriraj Singh tweeted on December 24 &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;Top 10 List of Most Corrupt Political Party in the World 2018 and Rahul Gandhi led congress making it all the way to 2nd spot &#8230;congratulations to the most corrupt political party.&#8221;\u00a0In a little over two hours, Singh&#8217;s tweet attracted over 1,000 likes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":24348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[492,491],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-24335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bbc-news-hub","tag-giriraj-singh","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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