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  • 2019-04-17 (xsd:date)
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  • No, this is not a photo of a man who tried to vote in the 2019 Indian elections while impersonating a Muslim woman (en)
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  • A photo of a man in an Islamic veil has been shared tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts which claim that activists from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been caught trying to vote in India’s 2019 election by impersonating Muslim women in burqas. The claim is false; the photo has circulated online since at least 2015. The photo was published in this Facebook post on April 11, 2019 and shared more than 20,000 times. The Facebook post was published the same day that voting in India’s 2019 elections began. This is an AFP report published on April 11 about the polls. The Hindi-language caption translates to English as: BJP activists caught red-handed on their way to to cast votes wearing Muslim women’s burka in Saharanpur. Below is a screenshot of the post: Snapshot of the misleading post BJP refers to India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. This is its official Twitter account. Saharanpur refers to a district and parliamentary constituency in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The photos were also shared on Facebook here and on Twitter here with the same claim. A reverse image search of the photo on Google found that the exact same image has circulated online since at least October 2015. The photo was published by an Indian news and entertainment site on October 1, 2015 here in a report about a man allegedly caught throwing beef in a temple. Below is a screenshot of the report: Screenshot of the same image published on news website The headline reads: This FB Post Allegedly Exposes RSS Activists In Burkha, Throwing Beef In Temple. RSS refers to Indian Hindu organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. This is a description of the group on the Britannica online encyclopedia. The article states: The post shows pictures of a man wearing a burka being paraded in Azamgarh, it is claimed that he is an RSS activists caught red handed while throwing beef in a temple. Azamgarh is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The same photo was used in other Indian media reports about the same incident here and here . (en)
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