{"id":69454,"date":"2020-06-20T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=69454"},"modified":"2020-06-20T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T15:13:05","slug":"fake-accounts-india-china-support-rahul-gandhi-ivanka-trump-donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fake-accounts-india-china-support-rahul-gandhi-ivanka-trump-donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake account: Truth behind ‘Chinese journalist’ thanking Rahul Gandhi on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 16, the news of the death of 20 Indian army soldiers along the Galwan Valley in Ladakh shook the nation. The news was widely reported and the Congress party came down heavily upon the PM Modi-led government. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi shared a link of a video<\/a> where he paid homage to the martyred soldiers. In another tweet, he questioned Defence Minister Rajnath Singh<\/a> on the soldiers’ deaths. He also questioned the Prime Minister and wrote, “Why is the PM silent? Why is he hiding? Enough is enough. We need to know what has happened. How dare China kill our soldiers? How dare they take our land?”<\/p>\n

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Why is the PM silent?
\nWhy is he hiding?<\/p>\n

Enough is enough. We need to know what has happened.<\/p>\n

How dare China kill our soldiers?
\nHow dare they take our land?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A supposedly Chinese user quote-tweeted Gandhi on June 17 and thanked him for asking “genuine questions”. He further wrote, “Till the moment you are there we don’t have to worry about anything.” The user Li Jie (@Lijeng_) identified as a journalist with China-based Global News.<\/p>\n

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Thanks @RahulGandhi<\/a> for your genuine questions.. till the moment you are there we don’t have to worry about anything. https:\/\/t.co\/JYwHqKtYIX<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \u674e\u6770 Li Jie (@Lijeng_) June 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tweet expectedly raised eyebrows. A purported Chinese national’s commendation for Rahul Gandhi in the current atmosphere was deemed significant. It was a reminder of the time when Hafiz Saeed<\/a> had praised journalist Barkha Dutt.<\/p>\n

Vikas Pandey retweeted the tweet thus giving it further traction. Pandey has over 1 lakh followers on Twitter and he runs the misinformation and pro-BJP propaganda page ‘I Support Narendra Modi’<\/a> on Facebook. The page has more than 16 lakh followers.<\/p>\n

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Fake account<\/h4>\n

The first hint\u00a0<\/strong>that pointed toward the ingenuity of the account was the fact that it was created in June 2020. In fact, we found no tweets posted by the account before June 17, the day he quote-tweeted Rahul Gandhi. All the retweets were also of tweets posted in June except one tweet from April. Furthermore, a brand new account of a journalist associated with Global Times also raised suspicion. The video below shows the account’s timeline until June 17, 2020, 9:10 PM.<\/p>\n