{"id":1457250,"date":"2022-04-28T17:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457250"},"modified":"2022-04-28T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T21:44:46","slug":"fact-check-did-the-new-york-times-report-that-the-largest-political-rally-in-history-recently-occurred-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-new-york-times-report-that-the-largest-political-rally-in-history-recently-occurred-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The New York Times Report That The Largest Political Rally In History Recently Occurred In India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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-report-that-the-largest-political-rally-in-history-recently-occurred-in-india%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=1457250&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\/gkkmishra\/posts\/10227789526389523\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> purportedly shows an article from The New York Times that claims the largest political rally in history recently occurred in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Verdict: False\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image is digitally fabricated. The New York Times confirmed in a tweet that it did not publish such a story.<\/p>\n<p><span><b>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image allegedly features a screen grab of an April 2 article from The New York Times that claims the Indian political party <a href=\"https:\/\/aamaadmiparty.org\/about\/our-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aam Aadmi<\/a> recently broke a record for hosting the largest political rally in history. \u201cNearly 25 crores people attended Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s rally in Gujarat after his Landslide win in Punjab Election,\u201d reads the article\u2019s subheadline.<\/p>\n<p>A crore is an Indian unit of measurement used to signify 1o million, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/crore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Merriam-Webster<\/a> dictionary. The alleged article is therefore suggesting that 250 million people attended the rally in question.<\/p>\n<p><span>The article is digitally fabricated. No such report appears on The New York Times\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/search?query=aam+aadmi+party+sets+world+record+of+gathering+highest+number+of+people+in+a+political+rally\"><span>website<\/span><\/a> or on <span>the news outlet\u2019s verified <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=aam%20aadmi%20party%20sets%20world%20record%20%20(from%3Anytimes)&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=top\">social <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/posts?q=aam%20aadmi%20party%20sets%20world%20record&#038;filters=eyJycF9hdXRob3I6MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcImF1dGhvclwiLFwiYXJnc1wiOlwiNTI4MTk1OTk5OFwifSJ9\">media<\/a><span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nytimes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accounts<\/a><\/span><span>. There are likewise no other credible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Aam+Aadmi+party+rally&#038;oq=Aam+Aadmi+party+rally&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61j69i60.4417j0j1&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports<\/a> suggesting a rally of that magnitude was recently held in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A rally was held in the city of Ahmedabad, India for the party earlier in April, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/ahmedabad\/aap-gujarat-arvind-kejriwal-bhagwant-mann-roadshow-7849629\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indian Express<\/a>. However, there is no indication in the article that the crowd size was 250 million or near that figure.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/15\/fact-check-indian-politician-pakistan-1-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/15\/fact-check-indian-politician-pakistan-1-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Did Indian Politician Rahul Gandhi Say That Pakistan Can Be \u2018Bought\u2019 For Less Than $1 Billion?)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The New York Times confirmed the viral image was fake in an April 2 tweet. \u201cThis screenshot, which is circulating on social media, is a mocked-up image,\u201d reads the tweet. \u201cThe New York Times did not write or publish this story.\u201d The tweet includes a link to the outlet\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/spotlight\/india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporting<\/a> on events in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This screenshot, which is circulating on social media, is a mocked-up image. The New York Times did not write or publish this story. Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wnc1L2kU2m\">https:\/\/t.co\/wnc1L2kU2m<\/a> for our fact-based, independent journalism about India. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BrXcbyHJ05\">pic.twitter.com\/BrXcbyHJ05<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYTimesPR\/status\/1511037063013052424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>This is not the first time a fake New York Times article about Indian politics has circulated online. Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/23\/fact-check-new-york-times-narendra-modi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> debunked a viral image that allegedly showed an article from the outlet that referred to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the \u201cworld\u2019s most loved and most powerful leader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows an article from The New York Times that claims the largest political rally in history recently occurred in India.\u00a0Verdict: False\u00a0 The image is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":1480903,"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-1457250","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\/1457250","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=1457250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}