{"id":59223,"date":"2020-02-20T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T09:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=59223"},"modified":"2020-02-21T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:54:00","slug":"photo-of-wall-painted-ahead-of-trumps-gujarat-visit-morphed-and-shared-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/photo-of-wall-painted-ahead-of-trumps-gujarat-visit-morphed-and-shared-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of wall painted ahead of Trump’s Ahmedabad visit morphed and shared online"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photo supposedly of a man urinating in front of a wall painted with murals of US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been shared on social media. Twitter user Santosh Addagulla posted<\/a> the image with the message, “Can\u2019t believe my eyes”. The painting is part of the preparation for Trump’s visit to Ahmedabad on February 24, where Gujarat will be reportedly spending around Rs 80 crore<\/a> for beautification and renovation of the city.<\/p>\n

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Same wall, different claim<\/h4>\n

Congress national social media coordinator Gaurav Pandhi posted<\/a> an image of the same wall and exclaimed, “OMG! Is this for real?”.<\/em> The wall is supposedly painted with the text, “\u092f\u0939\u093e\u0902 \u092a\u0947\u0936\u093e\u092c \u0915\u0930\u0928\u093e \u092e\u0928\u093e \u0939\u0948….\u092f\u0939\u093e\u0902 \u0928\u093e \u0925\u0942\u0902\u0915\u0947 (Urinating is prohibited here….spitting is prohibited here -translated)”.<\/p>\n

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Juxtaposed with an image of a slum<\/h4>\n

Congress’s Salman Nizami posted<\/a> two photos – an image of the same wall shot from a different angle and a picture of slum dwelling – with a message saying, “Parde ke peeche kya hai? Parde ke peeche…..! (What is behind the curtain? Behind the curtain -translated)”. His tweet has garnered close to 1,300 retweets so far.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h4>\n

Alt News will fact-check the three images separately.<\/p>\n

Image 1: Morphed<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Google reverse image search revealed that the image has been morphed. We found the same photograph in an article by American media outlet Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a> published on February 18, 2020. The outlet has credited the original photograph to news agency Associated Press<\/em><\/a>, according to which the photograph was shot on February 18, 2020.<\/p>\n

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As seen in the comparison below, the man in the viral image has been morphed into the photograph. It is noteworthy that one can spot the shadow of a tree in the image but there is no shadow of the man in the photoshopped image.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, fact-checking outlet SMHoaxSlayer <\/em><\/a>found an eight-year-old video<\/a> from which a screengrab of the man urinating near a wall was possibly lifted and later photoshopped into the image of a newly-painted wall in Ahmedabad. The video is claimed to be from Delhi.<\/p>\n