“A young boy made his self-portrait sculpture”
Social media posts
Claim dated 9 Aug 2020.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The sand sculpture is the creation of a sand artist from Odisha. The same image was posted by the artist on his Facebook profile. In correspondence with AFP, he acknowledged that the particular work is his own creation
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 9 August 2020. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 12 August 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=638783110369784&set=gm.1248462645530978&type=3&th…
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