Fact Check: Many videos and photos go viral on social media every day. There are a lot of such viral videos on different platforms of social media, which have nothing to do with the truth. To warn you against these fake news, we bring Global News Desk Fact Check. Similarly, a post regarding EVM is going viral very fast on social media. In this video, people are raising slogans on the road regarding EVMs. While sharing this video on social media, it is being claimed to be from Maharashtra. When we fact-checked it, the truth turned out to be something else.
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what is going viral
A video is going viral on social media at a very fast pace in which a crowd gathered on the road is raising slogans against EVMs (“Remove EVMs, save the country”). This video has been shared on many social media platforms. While sharing the video on social media platform This video has been shared on other social media platforms including Facebook.
How did you find out the truth?
When we investigated this claim, the truth turned out to be different. This viral video turned out to be old. When we started searching through keywords in Google, we found a post (on X) dated 31 January 2024. While sharing the post with this video, the user wrote, “Waman Meshram independence has begun. Will tear EVMs.” Apart from this, we found many more posts of this video on social media. This shows that this video is not recent but old. In such a situation, people are advised to be cautious of such misleading news.
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