{"id":1440184,"date":"2022-04-15T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440184"},"modified":"2022-04-15T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:30:23","slug":"fact-check-did-indian-politician-rahul-gandhi-say-that-pakistan-can-be-bought-for-less-than-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-indian-politician-rahul-gandhi-say-that-pakistan-can-be-bought-for-less-than-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Indian Politician Rahul Gandhi Say That Pakistan Can Be \u2018Bought\u2019 For Less Than $1 Billion?"},"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\">36<\/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-indian-politician-rahul-gandhi-say-that-pakistan-can-be-bought-for-less-than-1-billion%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=1440184&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><span>An image <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=809060553385379&#038;set=a.158070055151102\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> allegedly shows a screenshot of a tweet from Indian lawmaker Rahul Gandhi claiming Pakistan can be \u201cbought\u201d for less than $1 billion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Verdict: False<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The tweet is digitally fabricated. There is no record of Gandhi sending such a tweet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>India is facing pressure to increase its defense spending in response to tensions along its borders with China and Pakistan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/24\/world\/asia\/india-military-china-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. Despite this, an image shared on Facebook claims to show a screenshot of a tweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/ourneta.com\/neta\/rahul-gandhi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gandhi<\/a>, a member of India\u2019s parliament, criticizing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his government\u2019s defense spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span>Modi should explain to the nation why he spents (sic) billions of USD to purchase expansive weapons in the name of fighting Pakistan, when whole Pakistan can be bought in less than 1 Billion USD. #NationWantToKnow,\u201d reads the alleged April 10 tweet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The tweet is digitally fabricated. No such tweet appears on<\/span><span> Gandhi\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Pakistan%20(from%3ARahulGandhi)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> account or on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220409025640\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/RahulGandhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived versions<\/a> of his account. There is likewise no record of the tweet on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politwoops.com\/p\/india\/RahulGandhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politiwoops<\/a>, a website that tracks the deleted tweets of politicians. Check Your Fact found no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;tbm=nws&#038;sxsrf=APq-WBvfiu6fk7pK_WYFuAdubf51UMJqhg:1649948337152&#038;q=whole+pakistan+can+be+bought+in+less+than+1+billion+usd&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwj-iqLE6JP3AhVhUN8KHcC7CdEQgwN6BAgWEAE&#038;biw=1366&#038;bih=649&#038;dpr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> to corroborate the authenticity of the alleged tweet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A spokesperson for the All India Congress Committee, the <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/poll-debacle-aicc-member-wants-gandhis-to-step-aside-for-new-leadership\/articleshow\/90156290.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">political party<\/a> Gandhi belongs to, confirmed to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/factcheck-pakistan-india\/fact-check-indian-politician-rahul-gandhi-did-not-say-that-pakistan-can-be-bought-for-less-than-1-billion-idUSL2N2WB0LK\"><span>Reuters<\/span><\/a><span> that Gandhi had not made the statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/12\/fact-check-russia-protest-america-pakistan-affairs\/\"><b>(Related: Does This Image Show Russians Protesting Against American Involvement In Pakistani Affairs?)<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time misinformation involving Pakistan has gone viral. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/12\/fact-check-russia-protest-america-pakistan-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> recently debunked a viral Facebook post that claimed to show Russian citizens in Moscow demonstrating against U.S. involvement in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a screenshot of a tweet from Indian lawmaker Rahul Gandhi claiming Pakistan can be \u201cbought\u201d for less than $1 billion.\u00a0Verdict: False The tweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440184","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\/1440184","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\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440184\/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=1440184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}