

{"id":62880,"date":"2020-04-03T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T11:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=62880"},"modified":"2020-04-08T11:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T06:04:18","slug":"morphed-india-today-graphic-falsely-claims-pm-modi-extends-lockdown-till-may-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/morphed-india-today-graphic-falsely-claims-pm-modi-extends-lockdown-till-may-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphed India Today graphic falsely claims PM Modi extends lockdown till May 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A screenshot of an <em>India Today<\/em> broadcast with the time stamp 8:10 pm has gone viral. It shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the country on the coronavirus pandemic. The text flashed on the screen reads &#8211; &#8220;All-India Lockdown Increased Till 04th May.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62881 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/1585839834594.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/1585839834594.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/1585839834594-300x179.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/1585839834594-1024x612.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/1585839834594-768x459.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/1585839834594-990x591.jpeg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News has received several requests to fact-check the viral screenshot on WhatsApp (+91 76000 11160) and on our <a title=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\" data-from-md=\"\">official Android application<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62882 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/indiatoday1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/indiatoday1.png 798w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/indiatoday1-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/indiatoday1-768x414.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Morphed screenshot<\/h4>\n<p>On March 24, PM Modi had ordered a nationwide lockdown for 21 days, barring <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/india\/1824459\/indias-coronavirus-lockdown-guidelines-for-essential-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">essential services<\/a>, as a preventive measure to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. The 30-minute address was televised at 8 pm by nearly every news channel. Alt News watched this address on <em>India Today<\/em>&#8216;s YouTube channel and found that the viral image is a still taken at the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/in6ixbi6LO8?t=575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">9:40-minute mark<\/a>. However, it has been morphed to add false information that the lockdown has been extended till May 4.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62892 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-02-at-11.26.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1437\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-02-at-11.26.44-PM.png 1437w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-02-at-11.26.44-PM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-02-at-11.26.44-PM-1024x562.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-02-at-11.26.44-PM-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-02-at-11.26.44-PM-990x544.png 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-04-02-at-11.26.44-PM-1320x725.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1437px) 100vw, 1437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As evident, both the clips are similar &#8211; PM Modi&#8217;s photograph, the blurbs &#8216;COVID-19 BREAKING&#8217; and &#8216;PM ADDRESSES NATION&#8217; are exactly the same including the font.<\/p>\n<p>However, the news flash in the middle and bottom of the screen have been altered.<\/p>\n<p>1. While the original informs of an &#8216;all-India lockdown from midnight&#8217;, the morphed one has changed this to falsely read &#8211; &#8216;All-India lockdown increased till May 4&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>2. The sentence &#8216;India under lockdown&#8217; has been altered to &#8216;India under lockdown dates increased&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>3. &#8216;PM Modi announces nationwide lockdown&#8217; falsely reads &#8216;PM announces to shut down everything till 04 May&#8217; in the morphed graphic.<\/p>\n<p>4. It is also noteworthy that there&#8217;s uniformity in the font size and texture in the original graphic. The same cannot be said about the morphed one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62960 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Alt-Claim-WA-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Alt-Claim-WA-1.png 940w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Alt-Claim-WA-1-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/04\/Alt-Claim-WA-1-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are no reports of PM Modi announcing an extension of the 21-day lockdown (March 25 to April 14). In his latest address made on April 3, the Prime Minister appealed to citizens to switch off all lights at 9 pm on April 5 and ignite diyas, candles or torches from the balconies and doorsteps of their homes. This, he claimed, is an effort to dispel the darkness caused by the pandemic and give hope to the poor, the ones most vulnerable to the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Alt News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/morphed-news-graphics-falsely-claim-amit-shah-contracted-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fact-checked<\/a> two images resembling a still from a TV news channel circulated to falsely claim that Home Minister Amit Shah tested positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0The number of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.covid19india.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">positive cases of the novel coronavirus in India<\/a>\u00a0exceeds 5,000 and more than 150 deaths have so far been reported. The government has imposed a complete restriction on movement apart from essential services to tackle the pandemic.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Globally<\/a>, more than 14 lakh confirmed cases and over 80,000 deaths have been reported. There is a sense of panic among citizens, causing them to fall for a variety of online misinformation \u2013 misleading images and videos rousing fear or medical misinformation promoting pseudoscience and invalid treatments. While your intentions may be pure, misinformation, spread especially during a pandemic, can take lives. We request our readers to practice caution and not forward unverified messages on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A screenshot of an India Today broadcast with the time stamp 8:10 pm has gone viral. It shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the country on the coronavirus pandemic. The text flashed on the screen reads &#8211; &#8220;All-India Lockdown Increased Till 04th May.&#8221; Alt News has received several requests to fact-check the viral screenshot on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":62891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-62880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Morphed India Today graphic falsely claims PM Modi extends lockdown till May 4 - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morphed India Today graphic falsely claims PM Modi extends lockdown till May 4 - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A screenshot of an India Today broadcast with the time stamp 8:10 pm has gone viral. 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