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“Aditya Thackeray’s hoarding with Urdu caption, alluding a shift in his party’s inclination towards the Muslim community”
Social media posts Claim dated 8 Sep 2021.
FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING

What FACTLY found

This hoarding was put up back in 2019, as part of the general election campaign when he contested from the Worli constituency. However, hoardings were not just put up in Urdu but in multiple Indian languages like Telugu, Gujarati, etc

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

This claim spread on social media around 8 September 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 9 September 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.

Where the claim appeared

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