About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/c2179165f1d4b8dcd97daba5af825c7e32336b3afe7ef93fad46ad09     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:ClaimReview, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
http://data.cimple...lizedReviewRating
schema:url
schema:text
  • A set of images of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has gone viral with the claim that the bandage on her leg has shifted from the left to the right one, insinuating that she faked her injury. However, we found that Banerjee’s image has been flipped to make the false claim. She was discharged from the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata on 12 March, two days after she was injured while campaigning in Nandigram. CLAIM The claim, along with the images, reads: “In two days Bandage dressing changed from left to right leg. This is what happens when director does not know the script or the director is changed in between shots.[sic.]” Several social media users shared it on Twitter and Facebook with the same claim. The Quint also received a query on the claim being made in the image on its WhatsApp tipline. WHAT WE FOUND OUT We conducted a Google reverse image search on the picture in which Mamata Banerjee can be seen on a wheelchair. This led us to a News18 Bengali article in which one can see the injury in her left leg. In an earlier reported article, The Quint had incorporated visuals of the West Bengal Chief Minister coming out the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata on 12 March, two days after she was injured in Nandigram. In this video, too, one can see that it’s her left leg that was injured. The Indian Express also carried images of Banerjee leaving the hospital with her left leg being injured. We found that the viral image is a flipped version of the original one. Further, Mamata's image on a hospital bed was shared by TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee. Evidently, a flipped image of Mamata Banerjee has been shared to claim that her leg injury “changed from left to right” in two days. Earlier, a morphed image of the West Bengal Chief Minister had gone viral with a claim that she "walked" away from her wheelchair, insinuating that her leg injury is just an election gimmick. You can read our fact-check here. (Not convinced of a post or information you came across online and want it verified? Send us the details on WhatsApp at 9643651818, or e-mail it to us at webqoof@thequint.com and we'll fact-check it for you. You can also read all our fact-checked stories here.) (At The Quint, we question everything. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member today.)
schema:mentions
schema:reviewRating
schema:author
schema:datePublished
schema:inLanguage
  • English
schema:itemReviewed
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 5 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software