{"id":97798,"date":"2021-07-09T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T07:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=97798"},"modified":"2021-07-09T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T07:56:18","slug":"old-image-of-tourists-in-manali-shared-as-recent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-image-of-tourists-in-manali-shared-as-recent\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo from Jan 1 shared as recent crowd at Manali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid eased restrictions following the second wave of the coronavirus, photos of massive crowds thronging the streets of Manali, a popular tourist spot in Himachal Pradesh, have gone viral on social media. Siddharth Bakaria, president of tourism company Sahyog Foundation, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sidbakaria\/status\/1411753012477890560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted a picture as a recent scene<\/a> from Manali. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/FB7F5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Manali today<\/p>\n<p>Now we shouldn\u2019t blame politicians for there political rallies <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uQp3dDCb9H\">pic.twitter.com\/uQp3dDCb9H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Siddharth Bakaria Himachal\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@Sidbakaria) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sidbakaria\/status\/1411753012477890560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>IPS officer Arun Bothra tweeted a similar photo, which garnered close to 1,000 retweets as of this writing. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/76twg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u0939\u0930 \u0936\u093e\u0916\u093c \u092a\u0947 \u0909\u0932\u094d\u0932\u0942 \u092c\u0948\u0920\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0905\u0902\u091c\u093e\u092e-\u090f-\u0917\u0941\u0932\u093f\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0901 \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0939\u094b\u0917\u093e\u0964<\/p>\n<p>Manali, Himachal Pradesh. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eoM6mOulWp\">pic.twitter.com\/eoM6mOulWp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arun Bothra \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@arunbothra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arunbothra\/status\/1412005011421237249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter user Amarpreet Singh shared the image with a similar claim. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210707150839\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/amarpreet_ka\/status\/1411681764695699458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pictures speak- No room in hospital to no room in hotels at Manali in some days. \ud83d\ude37<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manali?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manali<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uKkLFRyMW9\">pic.twitter.com\/uKkLFRyMW9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amarpreet Singh (@amarpreet_ka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amarpreet_ka\/status\/1411681764695699458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The image is widespread on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Manali&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/Manali\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-97798 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-image-of-tourists-in-manali-shared-as-recent\/1-82\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/1-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/1-1.jpeg 948w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/1-1-300x232.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/1-1-768x594.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-image-of-tourists-in-manali-shared-as-recent\/2-72\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"959\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/2-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/2-1.jpeg 959w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/2-1-300x209.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/2-1-768x536.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-image-of-tourists-in-manali-shared-as-recent\/3-63\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/3-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/3-1.jpeg 610w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/3-1-232x300.jpeg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4><strong>Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>We performed a reverse image search and found a higher-quality version of the viral image on a few social media posts. A reverse image search of this version led us to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HimachaliBoysGirls\/posts\/3753543494694180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook post dated January 24 of this year<\/a>, where it is captioned as Manali&#8217;s Mall Road and attributed to &#8216;Amigosblink&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-97800 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/word-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/word-image.png 341w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/word-image-173x300.png 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News located Amingosblink&#8217;s January 23, 2021 post containing the image using a keyword search on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-97801 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/word-image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/word-image-1.png 341w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/word-image-1-164x300.png 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We contacted the Facebook page for more information about the picture. Ajay Kumar, the administrator running this page, stated that he had taken the snapshot on December 31, 2020. He has also sent Alt News a Facebook Live from the same day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amigosblink\/videos\/555653182128021\/\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"false\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/amigosblink\/videos\/555653182128021\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/amigosblink\/videos\/555653182128021\/\">Manali , 31st December,2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>new year eve Manali , 31st December,2020<br \/>\n#manali #kullumanaliAmigosblink<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amigosblink\/\">Amigosblink<\/a> on Monday, July 5, 2021<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Furthermore, the page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amigosblink\/photos\/a.167883647206598\/850195052308784\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clarified<\/a> that the photo is old.<\/p>\n<p>Following the second wave of COVID-19 in India, crowds have been seen at several tourist places. Hundreds of people have also come to visit Manali in Himachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Tourists throng Manali town in Kullu district as Himachal Pradesh government eases COVID restrictions <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/snIiwfcIo5\">pic.twitter.com\/snIiwfcIo5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1412077320567869449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A photo of Manali&#8217;s Mall Road taken on December 31, 2020, was falsely circulated on social media as recent. But Indian tourists have indeed been seen flouting COVID-19 norms following the second wave of COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid eased restrictions following the second wave of the coronavirus, photos of massive crowds thronging the streets of Manali, a popular tourist spot in Himachal Pradesh, have gone viral on social media. Siddharth Bakaria, president of tourism company Sahyog Foundation, tweeted a picture as a recent scene from Manali. 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