{"id":27584,"date":"2019-02-08T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=27584"},"modified":"2019-02-08T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T11:02:00","slug":"satire-on-kapil-sibal-regarding-mallyas-extradition-shared-as-authentic-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/satire-on-kapil-sibal-regarding-mallyas-extradition-shared-as-authentic-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Satire on Kapil Sibal regarding Mallya\u2019s extradition shared as authentic news"},"content":{"rendered":"

A screenshot of a report attributing a statement to senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal has been widely shared on social media. The title of the report reads, “\u092e\u093e\u0932\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0915\u094b \u0905\u092d\u0940 \u0907\u0902\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e \u092e\u0924 \u092d\u0947\u091c\u094b, \u091a\u0941\u0928\u093e\u0935 \u092a\u0930 \u0905\u0938\u0930 \u092a\u0921\u0947\u093c\u0917\u093e!” -\u0915\u092a\u093f\u0932 \u0938\u093f\u092c\u094d\u092c\u0932 \u0915\u0940 \u0932\u0902\u0926\u0928 \u0915\u094b\u0930\u094d\u091f \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0905\u0930\u094d\u091c\u093c\u0940 (Don’t send Mallya to India right now, it will affect the election! ” -Kapil Sibal’s application in\u00a0 London court -translated)”. <\/em>Facebook page NAMO<\/a> <\/em>posted the screenshot with a misleading caption, “Breaking News”<\/em>. At the time of writing the article, the post had garnered close to 13,000 shares.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Several individual users have shared the statement ascribed to the Congress leader on Facebook<\/a>. Moreover, the screenshot of the article is also circulating on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Satirical piece<\/h2>\n

A Google search of the keywords in the title reveals that the report was originally published by Faking News<\/em><\/a> on February 6, 2019.\u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n

Faking News<\/em> is an Indian satirical news website, which publishes fake news reports. The screenshot circulating on social media was taken from the same website and later was passed off with a misleading caption sans adequate information. Moreover, the About-us section of\u00a0Faking News<\/em><\/a> explains, “News Satire is a writing style that uses fake news reports as means to bring out the absurdities of real life in our society. On some occasions, real events and personalities could also be a part of such fake news reports to help convey the message easily.” <\/em>It also may be noted that the website has disclaimer regarding the same right at the bottom.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

In conclusion, a misleading screenshot from a satirical website was circulated on social media as an authentic news story. Eventually, users went on to share this fictional statement ascribed to Sibal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A screenshot of a report attributing a statement to senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal has been widely shared on social media. The title of the report reads, “\u092e\u093e\u0932\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0915\u094b \u0905\u092d\u0940 \u0907\u0902\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e \u092e\u0924 \u092d\u0947\u091c\u094b, \u091a\u0941\u0928\u093e\u0935 \u092a\u0930 \u0905\u0938\u0930 \u092a\u0921\u0947\u093c\u0917\u093e!” -\u0915\u092a\u093f\u0932 \u0938\u093f\u092c\u094d\u092c\u0932 \u0915\u0940 \u0932\u0902\u0926\u0928 \u0915\u094b\u0930\u094d\u091f \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0905\u0930\u094d\u091c\u093c\u0940 (Don’t send Mallya to India right now, it will affect the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":27636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-27584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-economics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/02\/Indian-National12.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27584","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=27584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27644,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27584\/revisions\/27644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27584"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=27584"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}