{"id":31188,"date":"2019-03-22T16:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T10:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=31188"},"modified":"2019-03-22T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T10:49:06","slug":"mischievously-photoshopped-image-of-sonia-gandhi-shared-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mischievously-photoshopped-image-of-sonia-gandhi-shared-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Mischievously photoshopped image of Sonia Gandhi shared on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photograph of former UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi seen seated in the lap of another person has been uploaded on Facebook. The public group <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/NARENDRAMODI31\/permalink\/3430851720271769\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WE SUPPORT NARENDRA MODI<\/a><\/em> with a membership of close to three million, has posted this photograph, which has been shared over 800 times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/sonia_fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/sonia_fb.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/sonia_fb-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The photograph has also been posted by the page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=115380166279903&amp;set=a.110124500138803&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Asaram Bapu<\/em><\/a>, and by an individual user, whose post has been shared over 300 times. The message posted along with the photo is identical:\u00a0<em>\u0932\u094b \u092c\u0947 \u091a\u092e\u091a\u094b \u0938\u092c\u0942\u0924&#8230;..<span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">\ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/span>\u0915\u0948\u0938\u0947 \u092c\u0928\u0940 \u0915\u0948\u0938\u0947 \u092c\u0928\u0940&#8230;&#8230;..!\u091f\u092e\u093e\u091f\u0930 \u092c\u093f\u0928\u093e \u091a\u091f\u0928\u0940 \u0915\u0948\u0938\u0947 \u092c\u0928\u0940 .<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This photograph had been circulated on social media in 2018 as well. Facebook page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YogiSarkarr\/photos\/a.1205253716246439\/1439938446111297\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Yogi Sarkar<\/em><\/a> had posted it in May 2018, which was shared over 3500 times. It was also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashishsraja1\/status\/995670803881627649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E995670803881627649&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026%2Fhindi%2Fviral-pic-of-sonia-gandhi-sitting-on-the-lap-of-a-man%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a>. This photograph had been fact-checked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/viral-pic-of-sonia-gandhi-sitting-on-the-lap-of-a-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alt News Hindi<\/a> in May 2018, when it was shared widely. Alt News found that the origin of this photograph is Sonia Gandhi&#8217;s meeting with the then Maldives President Abdul Gayoom during the latter&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.in\/photos\/president-of-the-republic-of-maldives-gayoom-visits-india?mediatype=photography&amp;phrase=president%20of%20the%20republic%20of%20maldives%20gayoom%20visits%20india&amp;sort=mostpopular#president-of-the-republic-of-maldives-maumoon-abdul-gayoom-talks-with-picture-id52489969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit to India<\/a> in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/sonia_gayoom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/sonia_gayoom.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/sonia_gayoom-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The image was mischievously photoshopped and made to appear as if Ms. Gandhi is seated in the lap of Mr. Gayoom. Sonia Gandhi&#8217;s image from the above picture was cropped and placed together with that of Mr. Gayoom. The video posted below is a step-by-step illustration of how this was possibly achieved.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Viral: Sonia Gandhi sitting on the lap of a man\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f-FA3QQIjHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photograph of former UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi seen seated in the lap of another person has been uploaded on Facebook. The public group WE SUPPORT NARENDRA MODI with a membership of close to three million, has posted this photograph, which has been shared over 800 times. The photograph has also been posted by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":31227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[603,341,193],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[132],"class_list":["post-31188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abdul-gayoom","tag-photoshopped-image","tag-sonia-gandhi","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\/2019\/03\/fi_soniagayoom.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31346,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188\/revisions\/31346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31188"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=31188"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}