Conceptual Nat Geo magazine cover with protestor from farmers' agitation believed to be true - Alt News
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5th January 2021 / 5:24 pm
Thousands of farmers continue their agitation for the repeal of the three farm laws and legal backing for a minimum support price. Hindustan Times reported that the seventh round of talks, on January 4, between the protestors and the government remained inconclusive.
In the backdrop of this, an image of a Sikh man on the National Geographic magazine’s cover page has gone viral on social media. Several people on Facebook and Twitter have shared this image.
The purported cover picture was posted on Twitter by Col Tekpal Singh (Retd), AAP supporter Raj Lali Gill, Congress leader Ajoy Kumar, Justice for Farmers (Jas Kaur) and Amarbir Singh who criticised the BJP government. (Archived links 1,2,3,4 and 5)
The world is watching and seeing how we are letting down our अन्नदाता ! Jai ho bjp 😡😡😡 pic.twitter.com/GDTqgRf1xC
— Dr Ajoy Kumar (@drajoykumar) January 4, 2021
The top right corner of the cover reads ‘Winter 2020’. Alt News viewed the cover pages of National Geographic magazine on the official website for November and December 2020 and neither found an image of a Sikh man nor the magazine dedicating the cover picture to the ongoing farmers’ protests in India. Furthermore, none of the cover pictures since June 2020 (when the farm bills were passed) and this month’s (January 2021) cover picture feature the image.
Additionally, we observed that the viral image carries the watermark ‘@anoopreet’ and the volume number mentioned is ‘1984 NO.2’
Thus, conceptual artwork by Instagram user @anoopreet was shared on the internet with the false claim that National Geographic magazine featured a Sikh man on its cover page during farmers’ protest.
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