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Fact Check: Image of Lord Shri Ram was NOT projected on Burj Khalifa

An image of Lord Shri Ram projected onto the Burj Khalifa building in Dubai is being shared virally on social media accounts with the narrative that on the occasion of Sri Rama Navami, the world’s largest building Burj Khalifa depicted an LED image of Lord Ram.

By 6 April 2023 6:05 AM GMT
Fact Check: Image of Lord Shri Ram was NOT projected on Burj Khalifa

An image of Lord Shri Ram projected onto the Burj Khalifa building in Dubai is being shared virally on social media accounts with the narrative that on the occasion of Sri Rama Navami, the world’s largest building Burj Khalifa depicted an LED image of Lord Ram.

Burj Khalifa is an iconic building in Dubai that is famous for its attractive and unique laser projections and shows. The skyscraper is lit up six times every day between 7.45 pm to 10.45 pm.

Rama Navami was celebrated on March 30, 2023 marking the birth of Lord Shri Ram, worshipped by Hindus.

The image is shared with a claim in Telugu: “శ్రీరామ నవమి శుభ సందర్భంగా,ప్రపంచంలోనే అత్యంత ఎత్తైన మరియు మన దుబాయ్ గర్వించదగిన భవనం బుర్జ్ ఖలీఫాలో శ్రీరాముని చిత్రపటం...జై శ్రీరామ్!”

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10167348207050363

Fact Check:

The claim is false. Lord Ram’s image has not been projected on Burj Khalifa, the image is digitally altered. When we performed Google reverse image search, we found that the image is a stock image published in istock in 2015.

We also searched for the viral image on the official Facebook page of Burj Khalifa and found no such images shared on the account. The recent post shared the building lit up on the occasion of World Autism Awareness day.

It was also lit up on the occasion of the 52nd Independence Day of Bangladesh.

There is no post marking the occasion of Ram Navami. Nor there has been any news of any such lighting show.

On further investigation, the image with the same background was found on the stock images website, istockphoto.com. There is no lighting of Lord Ram on the building but every other detail matches the viral image.

The same image was found on adobe stock images also.

Therefore, the claim that Burj Khalifa was lit up with Lord Sri Ram’s image is false. The image has been digitally altered.

Claim :   Image of Lord Sri Ram projected on Burj Khalifa
Claimed By :  Social Media Users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Network
Claim Source :  Social Media
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - Image of Lord Shri Ram was NOT projected on Burj Khalifa
Subhash

Satya Priya BN

A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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