{"id":1333525,"date":"2022-02-23T16:38:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1333525"},"modified":"2022-02-23T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:38:37","slug":"fact-check-did-the-new-york-times-publish-this-headline-about-narendra-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-new-york-times-publish-this-headline-about-narendra-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The New York Times Publish This Headline About Narendra Modi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-the-new-york-times-publish-this-headline-about-narendra-modi%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1333525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/vQTFz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows a front page of The New York Times declaring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the \u201cworld\u2019s most loved and most powerful leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The headline is digitally altered. The New York Times refuted the claim in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Modi has served as India\u2019s prime minister since 2014, previously serving as Chief Minister of Gujarat, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/pms-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prime Minister\u2019s Office<\/a> website. His approval rating among Indian citizens stood at 72 percent in mid-February 2022, one of the highest in the world, Morning Consult <a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/global-leader-approval\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=4907687332612492&#038;set=gm.4966527743456479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a> displays a supposed front page of The New York Times that includes a photo of Modi along with a headline that reads, \u201cLAST, BEST HOPE OF EARTH\u201d and a subheadline that reads, \u201cWORLD\u2019S MOST LOVED AND MOST POWERFUL LEADER, IS HERE TO BLESS US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFront Page of New York Times. Any thing (sic) more to say now?,\u201d reads text included in the image. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/12\/11\/fact-check-barack-obama-tweet-regrets-shaking-narendra-modis-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Barack Obama Tweet That He Regrets Shaking Hands With Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has not published such a headline or front page. There is no record of the alleged headline on the news outlet\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/search?dropmab=true&#038;query=%22World%27s%20most%20beloved%20and%20most%20powerful%20leader%22&#038;sort=best\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> or on any of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/5281959998\/search\/?q=%22last%2C%20best%20hope%20of%20earth%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/5281959998\/search\/?q=%22world%27s%20most%20beloved%20and%20most%20powerful%20leader%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22last%2C%20best%20hope%20of%20Earth%22%20(from%3Anytimes%20OR%20from%3ANYTimesPR)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22world%27s%20most%20beloved%20and%20most%20powerful%20leader%22%20(from%3Anytimes%20OR%20from%3ANYTimesPR)&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accounts<\/a>. Notably, some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/23\/opinion\/modi-is-no-champion-of-indias-women.html?searchResultPosition=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opinion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/15\/opinion\/recession-stock-market.html?searchResultPosition=34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pieces<\/a> from The New York Times have been critical of Modi\u2019s treatment of Muslims and women.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times addressed the bogus headline in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYTimesPR\/status\/1442927211741212678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1442927211741212678%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fmedia%2F574386-ny-times-calls-out-completely-fabricated-image-of-prime-minister-modi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> in September 2021, noting it is \u201ccompletely fabricated.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is a completely fabricated image, one of many in circulation featuring Prime Minister Modi. All of our factual reporting on Narendra Modi can be found at:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ShYn4qW4nT\">https:\/\/t.co\/ShYn4qW4nT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gsY7AlNFna\">pic.twitter.com\/gsY7AlNFna<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYTimesPR\/status\/1442927211741212678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time a fake headline from The New York Times has gone viral. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/11\/fact-check-new-york-times-article-non-fungible-tokens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/03\/fact-check-new-york-times-article-election-stolen-divide-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corrected<\/a> rumors that alleged the publication published articles titled \u201cNFTs Are the Top Expense for Low-Income Men in 2021\u201d and \u201cEven If The Election Was Stolen, Recalling It Will Just Further Divide The Country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a front page of The New York Times declaring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the \u201cworld\u2019s most loved and most powerful leader.\u201dVerdict:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}