{"id":46168,"date":"2019-09-13T21:19:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=46168"},"modified":"2019-09-14T01:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:16:04","slug":"ians-falls-for-parody-account-of-raghuram-rajan-several-media-outlets-follow-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/ians-falls-for-parody-account-of-raghuram-rajan-several-media-outlets-follow-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"IANS falls for parody account of Raghuram Rajan, several media outlets follow suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 13, a few media outlets published a story titled &#8211;\u00a0<em>&#8220;It&#8217;s a sign that you&#8217;re hiding real data: Rajan on Goyal faux pas&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em>The story was on former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan&#8217;s alleged response to the recent gaffe made by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal where he attributed the discovery of gravity to Albert Einstein instead of Isaac Newton.<\/p>\n<p><em>IANS<\/em> ran the original story and the syndicated feed was published by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abplive.in\/business\/its-sign-that-youre-hiding-real-data-ex-rbi-governor-raghuram-rajan-on-piyush-goyal-faux-pas-1073394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABP News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/news\/hot-news\/it-s-a-sign-that-you-re-hiding-real-data-rajan-on-goyal-faux-pas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Quint<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/economy\/indicators\/its-a-sign-youre-hiding-real-data-raghuram-rajan-on-piyush-goyals-faux-pas\/articleshow\/71112357.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Economic Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/newsscroll\/its-a-sign-that-youre-hiding-real-data-rajan-on-goyal-faux-pas\/1618048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Outlook <\/a><\/em>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/caravandaily.com\/its-a-sign-that-youre-hiding-real-data-rajan-on-goyal-faux-pas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caravan Daily<\/a>. The Economic Times\u00a0<\/em>has now taken down the story.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46172 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-39.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-39.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-39-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-39-768x402.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-39-1024x536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-39-990x518.jpeg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Rajan tweeted, <em>&#8220;When you don&#8217;t understand the #GRAVITY of the economic slowdown, the words stumble and reasoning becomes feeble. If someone thinks that maths doesn&#8217;t help understanding gravity and economics, then it&#8217;s a sign that you are hiding the actual statistical data. Newton must be smiling,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Media quotes a parody account<\/h2>\n<p>The tweet attributed to Rajan was posted by a parody account dedicated to the Indian economist. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaghuramRRajan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">handle<\/a> itself reveals this information in its bio.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46170 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-38-e1568388124943.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-38-e1568388124943.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-38-e1568388124943-300x113.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-38-e1568388124943-768x288.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-38-e1568388124943-1024x384.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/Untitled-design-38-e1568388124943-990x371.jpeg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Raghuram Rajan is not on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t an isolated case when\u00a0<em>IANS\u00a0<\/em>and subsequently other media outlets believed a parody account to be genuine. Led by\u00a0<em>IANS<\/em>, several media outlets published reports based on tweets from a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/led-by-ians-media-outlets-fall-for-a-parody-account-of-tripura-cm-biplab-deb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0parody account of Tripura CM Biplab Deb<\/a> last year. Furthermore, <em>The Economic Times\u00a0<\/em>had earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/the-economic-times-falls-for-parody-twitter-account-of-warren-buffett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published a tweet<\/a> by a parody account of Warren Buffet, despite the American businessman operating an official Twitter account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 13, a few media outlets published a story titled &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s a sign that you&#8217;re hiding real data: Rajan on Goyal faux pas&#8221;.\u00a0The story was on former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan&#8217;s alleged response to the recent gaffe made by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal where he attributed the discovery of gravity to Albert Einstein instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":46175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-46168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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