“A video of Congress President Rahul Gandhi claiming to give land to farmers on moon to grow crops has gone viral on social media. We found the claims to be misleading. Another clip of Mr Gandhi from the same event had also gone viral with misleading context.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 11 Apr 2019.
BBC Hindi rated thisFalse
In short
This claim spread on social media around 11 April 2019. BBC Hindi (India) looked into it and published its finding on 19 April 2019, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/NarendraNews/videos/1037375463137034/
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/addyourfriendstolikepage/videos/2803294446561474/
- Post on Xhttps://twitter.com/vivekshettym/status/1116165533148205056
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/TheFrustratedIndian/videos/1507120652656741/
Links recorded by BBC Hindi. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by BBC Hindi, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.