{"id":40307,"date":"2019-07-06T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=40307"},"modified":"2019-07-06T18:55:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T13:25:11","slug":"fact-check-are-those-worn-out-feet-of-an-indian-soldier-on-active-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fact-check-are-those-worn-out-feet-of-an-indian-soldier-on-active-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-check: Are those worn-out feet of an Indian soldier on active duty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The above message is being shared on social media with an image that shows wrinkled feet of a man dressed in military uniform. The picture shows a condition known as Trench foot which is caused by long immersion of feet in cold water or mud.<\/span>
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\nThis picture has been shared by several users on Facebook with the same claim.
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\nThis photograph has been circulating on social media since 2018. One Vishnu Prakash’s<\/a><\/span> post on Facebook, with the same claim, has been shared more than 12,000 times. <\/span>We have also received requests to verify the image on the Alt News app<\/a>.
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Fact-check<\/h2>\n

Often, the quality of an image deteriorates as it traverses the world of social media from one platform to another. The strategy to fact-check blurry images or videos is to find a clearer version of the same, one with a higher resolution. A reverse image search on Yandex led Alt News to a better quality image posted by a Reddit user<\/a>. This was one of the earliest instances of the image uploaded on the internet that Alt News could find.<\/p>\n

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