When facts are not in your favour, just change the subject and fact-check what suits the narrative. While it is indeed true that farmer unions also brought their own flags and hoisted them, the particular yellow rectangle flag with holy Sikh symbol in blue is not even mentioned in this ‘fact-check’. Instead of talking about the main dome where the tricolour is also hoisted, Boom talks about some completely different dome and concluded that the second flag is of a farmer union. BoomLive ‘fact-checking’ the second flagīoomLive in a bizarre move has actually ‘fact-checked’ a completely different image from the same day. ‘Fact-checkers’ who are allergic to factsīoomLive ‘fact-checked’ the ‘ second‘ flag uploaded by the rioting mob.
These media houses are conspicuously silent on the yellow rectangle flag planted next to the saffron triangle flag and the Indian national flag on the Red Fort. Twitter mischiefĪs one can see, the three sources Twitter used to flag the tweet as ‘manipulated media’ were either silent about description of the Nishan Sahib or when they did, they only described the other saffron triangular flag as the Nishan Sahib. ThePrint explains that the Nishan Sahib is a triangular saffron flag, mounted on a steel pole that is also covered with a saffron coloured cloth. Now, Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint explained what a Nishan Sahib flag looks like. Read how Jain spends his time downplaying violence. So essentially, Twitter relied on Sreenivasan’s singular tweet to flag the video as manipulated. In rest of the ‘manipulated tweet’ details posted by Twitter, no one NDTV tweet or article appears. NDTV India’s Ravish Kumar also kept giving leeway to rioting mob. NDTV, amongst other things, kept itself busy on the Republic Day downplaying violence and painted the rioting mob as humanitarian for making way for an ambulance. It did not (mercifully) replace the tricolour, which remains aloft at the Red Fort at an elevation.- Sreenivasan Jain January 26, 2021 Now in place of NDTV report, Twitter just uploaded NDTV employee Sreenivasan Jain’s tweet which proclaimed that the flag hoisted was the Nishan Sahib.Īs per NDTV’s the flag hoisted by protestors at the Red Fort is sacred to Sikhs, seen outside gurudwaras where it is called the Nishan Saheb. The image shown is different from the video uploaded by Twitter user Rosy which also had another yellow rectangular flag. If one sees carefully, the flag hoisted in India Today report is indeed the Nishan Sahib, which is the saffron triangular flag. India Today report on flag hoisted at Red Fort The report is from 26th January 2021 and it states the ‘farmers’ hoisted the Nishan Sahib on the Red Fort. It does not specify the colour of the shape of the flag. In fact, the report only states matter of factly that the Nishan Sahib was hoisted. The India Today report Twitter has used for flagging the above video as manipulated does not mention the shape of the Nishan Sahib. Here is how these media houses have described the flags hoisted. Twitter relied on India Today, NDTV and ThePrint’s reports to claim that the above video is manipulated. Twitter’s explanation of ‘manipulated media’ When you click on the information card, it takes you to a page on basis of which it marked the tweet as manipulated.
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