Indian News wire agency IANS claims that Pakistani PM Imran Khan read an overturned graph and claimed that Pakistan was flattening its curve.
We found that the claim originated from a Pakistani satire website called The Dependent, and had no link to reality., "Twitter handle Not The Dependent (@DependentNot) posted a screenshot of the IANS article, while insinuating that it was originally satire piece.The byline in the screenshot mentioned Aarti Tikoo Singh as the author, who is the Foreign and Strategic Affairs Editor at IANS.", According to its bio, the handle was described as an official parody account of Pakistani satire website The Dependent (@dependent_the_)., "Learn to differentiate between satire and actual news reports @ians_india And hands off our PM. He may be a petty, facile, undemocratically imposed lackey without principles, but hes OUR petty, facile, undemocratically imposed lackey without principles! pic.twitter.com/mrTIeS4SBl", "Looking through The Dependents tweets, we found the original article posted on May 6, article which ran with a satire disclaimer.", Curve is finally flattening, says PM before realising chart upside downhttps://t.co/JPNEOerDq0 pic.twitter.com/1zGtuYniZv, The article on The Dependent\s website also carried a disclaimer at the bottom saying, "The above piece is a work of satire and does not present itself as the truth.", "However, IANS ran the story through the wire without any mention of it being a work of satire. The article was eventually syndicated by other news portals like Newsd and Outlook as well. While Outlook attributed the story to IANS, the Newsd article mentioned Aarti Tikoo Singhs name in the byline.", BOOM’s WhatsApp Helpline, Need Help To Verify An Image Or A Video? Send It To Us On +91 77009 06588, Boom is now available on Telegram, Click here to read our latest fact check stories and other updates.
IANS Publishes Satire Article On Imran Khan As News