As nosotros fix to bid our goodbye to 2017, let’s induce got a expect dorsum at the year’s trending tidings points that took the basis yesteryear tempest but were genuinely fake.
This year, lots of mistaken tidings was widely shared across social media platforms correct from Twitter to Facebook in addition to WhatsApp.
1. Akash Ambani’s viral ‘wedding carte du jour worth Rs 1.5 lakh made of gold’
H5N1 clip showing an elaborate marriage card, allegedly made alongside pure gilded plating, was doing the rounds of diverse social media platforms, alongside rumour mills buzzing that this invite could live that of Mukesh in addition to Nita Ambani’s eldest son, Akash Ambani. However, Reliance Industries Ltd quashed the tidings saying: “We would similar to clarify that this video is completely untrue in addition to contains hoax content designed purely for sensationalism.”
2. The Angelina Jolie lookalike ‘after fifty surgeries’
19-year-old Sahar Tabar’s pictures splashed all over the Internet alongside the claim that she underwent fifty plastic surgeries to expect similar her Hollywood idol Angelina Jolie. Later, it came to lite after an interview alongside Sputnik, that the claims of Tabar were genuinely wrong, in addition to the results were due to technology.
3. South Africa president Jacob Zuma’s ‘in the beginning’ video
H5N1 video was modified to present that the South African President, Jacob Zuma cannot pronounce the give-and-take ‘beginning’. However, later people started posting the master copy video to divulge the truth behind it.
4. The claim that Swami Vivekananda’s statue was beheaded yesteryear Muslims
H5N1 photograph of Swami Vivekananda’s beheaded statue surfaced on social media. Later, a website named Akhand Bharat reported that the anti-social chemical subdivision who damaged the statue was afterwards arrested. However, it was turned into a communal struggle when a tweet claiming that Muslims beheaded it went viral, which was genuinely a hoax.
5. Astronaut shared lit-up pic of India, but it was non from Diwali
H5N1 breathtaking painting present of ‘India during Diwali equally seen from the cosmos’ had gone viral on social media. The painting present was shared yesteryear astronaut Paolo Nespoli (@astro_paolo). There was solely ane occupation alongside the painting present that it was non from a Diwali night. H5N1 Twitter user dug out in addition to tweeted that the photograph was originally shared yesteryear the astronaut on his Flickr occupation organisation human relationship on September 29, 2017, most a calendar month earlier Diwali.
6. The Rs 2000-note auto viral pic, in addition to the ‘lover who was arrested’
Around Valentine’s Day this year, photos of a auto covered inwards Rs 2,000 notes went viral, wherein a Mumbai-based human had manifestly decorated the auto thence to print his girlfriend. It was also reported that the human was arrested equally good which was non true. These were only around of the transcend hoax stories that went viral. There’s yet a never-ending listing of many such stories where people practice mistaken stories in addition to others without questioning readily bring the forwarded news.
