{"id":36013,"date":"2019-05-11T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=36013"},"modified":"2019-05-11T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T12:31:09","slug":"rahul-gandhis-image-photoshopped-to-claim-he-was-attacked-in-amethi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/rahul-gandhis-image-photoshopped-to-claim-he-was-attacked-in-amethi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi’s image photoshopped to claim he was attacked in Amethi"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photograph of Rahul Gandhi with a black eye is circulating on social media with the claim that the Congress President was thrashed in his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi. From a Facebook group I Support Yogi<\/a>, the post drew 2,600 likes and over 500 shares at the time of writing this article. The caption used to share the image reads – “\u0930\u093e\u0939\u0941\u0932 \u0917\u093e\u0902\u0927\u0940 \u0915\u093e \u0906\u091c \u0905\u092e\u0947\u0920\u0940 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u091c\u094b\u0930\u0926\u093e\u0930 \u0938\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0917\u0924 \u0939\u0941\u0906\u0964\u0915\u0941\u091b \u091c\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0926\u093e \u0939\u0940 \u092a\u0947\u0932\u093e \u0939\u0948 (Rahul Gandhi was welcomed in Amethi today with immense pomp. He was attacked quite a lot.)”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Another group \u092e\u0947\u0930\u093e \u0935\u094b\u091f \u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940 \u0915\u094b ( Modi Voters \u091c\u0941\u095c\u0947<\/a> ) also shared the photograph.<\/p>\n

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A few other groups that circulated the post are \u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u0924\u094b \u092e\u0941\u092e\u0915\u093f\u0928 \u0939\u0948<\/a> and Jai Ram Thakur (\u091c\u092f\u0930\u093e\u092e \u0920\u093e\u0915\u0941\u0930 ) CM of Himachal with modi ji<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Twitter, the photograph has been shared with a different caption –\u00a0“\u0930\u093e\u092b\u0947\u0932 \u0938\u0947 \u091f\u0915\u0930\u093e\u0915\u0930 \u092a\u092a\u094d\u092a\u0942 \u0915\u0940 \u0939\u093e\u0932\u0924.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u0930\u093e\u092b\u0947\u0932 \u0938\u0947 \u091f\u0915\u0930\u093e\u0915\u0930 \u092a\u092a\u094d\u092a\u0942 \u0915\u0940 \u0939\u093e\u0932\u0924 \ud83d\ude2b pic.twitter.com\/lTHOC0Gghq<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sunny deol (\u091a\u094c\u0915\u0940\u0926\u093e\u0930) (@Sunnydeolsir) May 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Photoshopped image<\/h2>\n

A reverse-search on Google takes one to an article published by Postcard News<\/a> <\/em>that carried an image similar to the viral photograph. The logo of\u00a0Republic TV\u00a0<\/em>was superimposed on the image. We used Google search operator ‘site:’ to locate the photo<\/a> on the media outlet’s website.<\/p>\n

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Rahul Gandhi’s clothes are the same and the background of the mountain also looks identical. The mountain in the photograph is Mount Kailash. Several websites<\/a> have used the same image across the years. When we juxtapose both images, the similarities are evident. In the photoshopped image, the tilt of Gandhi’s face has been adjusted. His eyes have been painted blue-black to portray him as injured. Furthermore, his face has also been bloated in the digitally-manufactured image.<\/p>\n

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A double reverse-search of Gandhi’s image led us to the original photograph. Among the media organisations that have used the photograph in the past was\u00a0Economic Times.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>A side-by-side comparison of both the images reveals that Republic<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>had superimposed Gandhi’s photograph on a background of Mount Kailash for representational purposes.<\/p>\n

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The ongoing Lok Sabha elections have witnessed several cases where Congress President Rahul Gandhi was targetted using misinformation of varied kind – false claims<\/a>, photoshopped images<\/a> and clipped videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A photograph of Rahul Gandhi with a black eye is circulating on social media with the claim that the Congress President was thrashed in his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi. From a Facebook group I Support Yogi, the post drew 2,600 likes and over 500 shares at the time of writing this article. The caption used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":36031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-36013","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\/2019\/05\/rahul-gandhi-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36013","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36013"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36055,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36013\/revisions\/36055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36013"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=36013"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}