{"id":50909,"date":"2019-11-13T21:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=50909"},"modified":"2019-11-18T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T08:59:11","slug":"unrelated-photos-shared-as-boy-in-gujarat-hospitalized-due-to-pubg-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/unrelated-photos-shared-as-boy-in-gujarat-hospitalized-due-to-pubg-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrelated photos shared as boy in Gujarat hospitalized due to PUBG addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kalol College pacvhad \u0938\u0942\u0930\u0924 \u0917\u0941\u091c\u0930\u093e\u0924 \u0ab9\u0ab0\u0ac0\u0aa8\u0a97\u0ab0 &#8211; \u0ae8 \u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a8f\u0a95 \u0a9b\u0acb\u0a95\u0ab0\u0acb \u0a9c\u0ac7\u0aa8\u0ac1\u0a82 \u0aa8\u0abe\u0aae \u0ab8\u0ac1\u0aad\u0abe\u0ab7 \u0ab6\u0abe\u0ab9\u0ac1 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a85\u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a86 \u0a9b\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab0\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0aaa\u0aac\u0a9c\u0ac0 \u0ab0\u0aae\u0aa4\u0abe \u0ab9\u0abe\u0aa4 \u0aac\u0a82\u0a98 \u0aa8\u0aa5\u0ac0 \u0aa5\u0aa4\u0abe \u0a85\u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0a9b\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab0\u0ac9 \u0aae\u0ac5\u0aa8\u0a9f\u0ab2 \u0aa5\u0ac8 \u0a97\u0aaf\u0ac9 \u0a9b\u0ac5 \u0aa4\u0aae\u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0ab9\u0abe\u0aa5 \u0a9c\u0ac9\u0aa1\u0ac0 \u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0ab5\u0abf\u0aa8\u0aa4\u0ac0 \u0a9b\u0ac5 \u0a95\u0ac5 \u0aaa\u0aac\u0a9c\u0ac0 \u0ab0\u0aae\u0ab5\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac1 \u0aac\u0a82\u0aa7 \u0a95\u0ab0\u0ac9 \u0a85\u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0a86 \u0ab5\u0ac0\u0aa1\u0abf\u0aaf\u0ac9 \u0a86\u0a97\u0ab3 \u0aae\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab2\u0ac9 \u0a9c\u0ac7 \u0aa5\u0ac0 \u0aac\u0ac0\u0a9c\u0abe \u0a95\u0ac9\u0a88\u0aa8\u0abe \u0a9b\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab0\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac9 \u0a9c\u0ac0\u0ab5 \u0aac\u0a9a\u0ac0 \u0a9c\u0abe\u0aaf\u00a0<span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">\ud83d\ude4f<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u0aaa\u0aac\u0a9c\u0ac0 \u0aac\u0a82\u0aa7 \u0a95\u0ab0\u0ac9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Translation: Kalol College pacvhad Surat Gujarat Harinagar- This boy is Subhash Shah. His hands wont stop due to PUBG and he has lost his mind. This is a request to please stop playing PUBG and to forward this video so that other children may be saved. Ban PUBG.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The above message has been shared widely on social media, along with a video and some photographs. In the video, the boy can be seen constantly twiddling his thumbs as he lies on the hospital bed, attended by doctors. The photographs show a boy in the company of his parents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lakkajak.bha\/posts\/804138856684212\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/lakkajak.bha\/posts\/804138856684212\"><p>Kalol College pacvhad \u0938\u0942\u0930\u0924 \u0917\u0941\u091c\u0930\u093e\u0924 \u0ab9\u0ab0\u0ac0\u0aa8\u0a97\u0ab0 &#8211; \u0ae8 \u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a8f\u0a95 \u0a9b\u0acb\u0a95\u0ab0\u0acb \u0a9c\u0ac7\u0aa8\u0ac1\u0a82 \u0aa8\u0abe\u0aae \u0ab8\u0ac1\u0aad\u0abe\u0ab7 \u0ab6\u0abe\u0ab9\u0ac1 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a85\u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a86 \u0a9b\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab0\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0aaa\u0aac\u0a9c\u0ac0 \u0ab0\u0aae\u0aa4\u0abe \u0ab9\u0abe\u0aa4 \u0aac\u0a82\u0a98 \u0aa8\u0aa5\u0ac0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lakkajak.bha\">Sandeep Patil<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/lakkajak.bha\/posts\/804138856684212\">Tuesday, November 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The above post has been shared over 1000 times so far. The pictures and video have also been shared with the message in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/anjir.solanki\/posts\/787390391710126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hindi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-2.19.59-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-2.19.59-PM.png 395w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-2.19.59-PM-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The message, along with the video and pictures, has gone viral on Facebook wherein several users have posted it with identical text.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy1.png 400w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy1-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same has been posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"gu\">Kalol College pacvhad \u0ab9\u0ab0\u0ac0\u0aa8\u0a97\u0ab0 &#8211; \u0ae8 \u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a8f\u0a95 \u0a9b\u0acb\u0a95\u0ab0\u0acb \u0a9c\u0ac7\u0aa8\u0ac1\u0a82 \u0aa8\u0abe\u0aae \u0ab8\u0ac1\u0aad\u0abe\u0ab7 \u0ab6\u0abe\u0ab9\u0ac1 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a85\u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a86 \u0a9b\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab0\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0aaa\u0aac\u0a9c\u0ac0 \u0ab0\u0aae\u0aa4\u0abe \u0ab9\u0abe\u0aa4 \u0aac\u0a82\u0a98 \u0aa8\u0aa5\u0ac0 \u0aa5\u0aa4\u0abe \u0a85\u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0a9b\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab0\u0ac9 \u0aae\u0ac5\u0aa8\u0a9f\u0ab2 \u0aa5\u0ac8 \u0a97\u0aaf\u0ac9 \u0a9b\u0ac5 \u0aa4\u0aae\u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0ab9\u0abe\u0aa5 \u0a9c\u0ac9\u0aa1\u0ac0 \u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0ab5\u0abf\u0aa8\u0aa4\u0ac0 \u0a9b\u0ac5 \u0a95\u0ac5 \u0aaa\u0aac\u0a9c\u0ac0 \u0ab0\u0aae\u0ab5\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac1 \u0aac\u0a82\u0aa7 \u0a95\u0ab0\u0ac9 \u0a85\u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0a86 \u0ab5\u0ac0\u0aa1\u0abf\u0aaf\u0ac9 \u0a86\u0a97\u0ab3 \u0aae\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab2\u0ac9 \u0a9c\u0ac7 \u0aa5\u0ac0 \u0aac\u0ac0\u0a9c\u0abe \u0a95\u0ac9\u0a88\u0aa8\u0abe \u0a9b\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab0\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac9 \u0a9c\u0ac0\u0ab5 \u0aac\u0a9a\u0ac0 \u0a9c\u0abe\u0aaf \ud83d\ude4f \u0aaa\u0aac\u0a9c\u0ac0 \u0aac\u0a82\u0aa7 \u0a95\u0ab0\u0ac9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9qPD3C6sBR\">pic.twitter.com\/9qPD3C6sBR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Neelu Johar1105 (@johar4401) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johar4401\/status\/1193925324121296901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PUBG (PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds) is an online multiplayer shooting game which is hugely popular among young Gujaratis. Earlier this year, the Gujarat government had officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/technology\/news\/pubg-banned-in-gujarat-schools-state-govt-says-game-affects-studies\/story\/313158.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned<\/a> the game from primary schools, citing &#8216;adverse effects&#8217; on young players. The video with the accompanying narrative is also circulating on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/pubg-fake-news-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/pubg-fake-news-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/pubg-fake-news-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/pubg-fake-news.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>FACT CHECK: FALSE CLAIM<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Alt News&#8217;s fact-check found this claim false. We reverse-searched one of the images on Google, and came across an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/milaap.org\/stories\/help-sujan-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Milaap<\/em><\/a>. Milaap is an online crowdfunding platform, wherein anyone can raise funds through appeals, mostly for health-related causes.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the boy seen in the photos is Sujan, and not Subhash Shah as claimed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy2-1024x469.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy2-1024x469.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy2-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy2-768x352.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy2-990x453.png 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy2.png 1223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is no reference to PUBG anywhere in the article. Sujan is from Karnataka. He is suffering from blood cancer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50929\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy3.jpg 579w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/boy3-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News could not independently ascertain the origin of the video circulating along with the message. Additionally, we did not come across a single news report in the Gujarati media about the said incident. The claim circulating on social media is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalol College pacvhad \u0938\u0942\u0930\u0924 \u0917\u0941\u091c\u0930\u093e\u0924 \u0ab9\u0ab0\u0ac0\u0aa8\u0a97\u0ab0 &#8211; \u0ae8 \u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0a8f\u0a95 \u0a9b\u0acb\u0a95\u0ab0\u0acb \u0a9c\u0ac7\u0aa8\u0ac1\u0a82 \u0aa8\u0abe\u0aae \u0ab8\u0ac1\u0aad\u0abe\u0ab7 \u0ab6\u0abe\u0ab9\u0ac1 \u0a9b\u0ac7 \u0a85\u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a86 \u0a9b\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab0\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0aaa\u0aac\u0a9c\u0ac0 \u0ab0\u0aae\u0aa4\u0abe \u0ab9\u0abe\u0aa4 \u0aac\u0a82\u0a98 \u0aa8\u0aa5\u0ac0 \u0aa5\u0aa4\u0abe \u0a85\u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0a9b\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab0\u0ac9 \u0aae\u0ac5\u0aa8\u0a9f\u0ab2 \u0aa5\u0ac8 \u0a97\u0aaf\u0ac9 \u0a9b\u0ac5 \u0aa4\u0aae\u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0ab9\u0abe\u0aa5 \u0a9c\u0ac9\u0aa1\u0ac0 \u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0ab5\u0abf\u0aa8\u0aa4\u0ac0 \u0a9b\u0ac5 \u0a95\u0ac5 \u0aaa\u0aac\u0a9c\u0ac0 \u0ab0\u0aae\u0ab5\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac1 \u0aac\u0a82\u0aa7 \u0a95\u0ab0\u0ac9 \u0a85\u0aa8\u0ac5 \u0a86 \u0ab5\u0ac0\u0aa1\u0abf\u0aaf\u0ac9 \u0a86\u0a97\u0ab3 \u0aae\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab2\u0ac9 \u0a9c\u0ac7 \u0aa5\u0ac0 \u0aac\u0ac0\u0a9c\u0abe \u0a95\u0ac9\u0a88\u0aa8\u0abe \u0a9b\u0ac9\u0a95\u0ab0\u0abe \u0aa8\u0ac9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":50953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[132],"class_list":["post-50909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-social-media-claims","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/Untitled-design-2019-11-13T213218.382.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909","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=50909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51248,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909\/revisions\/51248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50909"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=50909"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}