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Fact Check: Newspaper clipping claiming Rahul was arrested for wrong reasons at Boston airport is digitally generated

A screenshot of the image of an old newspaper clipping dated back to September 30, 2001, with the headline “Indian Politician Arrested” is being widely shared by social media users claiming that the said politician is Rahul Gandhi.

By 2 March 2023 11:58 AM GMT
Fact Check: Newspaper clipping claiming Rahul was arrested for wrong reasons at Boston airport is digitally generated

A screenshot of the image of an old newspaper clipping dated back to September 30, 2001, with the headline “Indian Politician Arrested” is being widely shared by social media users claiming that the said politician is Rahul Gandhi. The article, published on Page 13 of the newspaper, states that an Indian politician was detained at Boston airport when the airport security found him in possession of banned drugs and unaccounted cash.

The caption of the image shared claims “When Rahul Gandhi was arrested back in Boston for drugs. He was released after intervention of PM Vajpeyee. Soniya begged and large hearted Vajpeyee spoke to US authorities. Now such shabby character wants to be PM. One can check the newspaper clipping from Boston(USA)”

Fact check:

The claim is False. It is a digitally altered image.

Firstly, we searched for all the newspapers in Boston city in 2001 and found various newspapers. The main newspapers are “The Boston Globe”, “Boston Post”, etc.

Since the masthead design resembles the design of “The Boston Globe”, we searched for page 13 of The Boston Globe, September 30, 2001. But there was no mention of any Indian politician being arrested.

The newspaper clip has been generated using Newspaper Clipping Generator Tool – fodey.com

Telugupost generated a similar image by using fodey.com. Here is the comparison of the viral image and the image generated by us.

According to The Hindu, Rahul Gandhi was detained for about an hour at the Boston airport on September 29, 2001. Though the reasons for the detention were unknown, he was released after an hour.

Hence, the viral image shared is not genuine and was created digitally. The claim is false.

Claim :   Rahul Gandhi arrested in Boston in 2001
Claimed By :  Twitter Users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Network
Claim Source :  Twitter
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - Newspaper clipping claiming Rahul was arrested for wrong reasons at Boston airport is digitally generated
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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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