“Ali Fazal’s tweet celebrating Delhi riots. The tweet also shares the image of IB officer Ankit Sharma’s dead body being pulled out of a drain”
Social media posts
Claim dated 6 Oct 2020.
FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING
What FACTLY found
The tweet mentioned in the post is made by the actor in support of the CAA protests back in December 2019. He did not tweet this in the light of Delhi riots or the death of the IB officer as both incidents took place in February 2020. Also, the actor did not share any image along with the tweet
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 6 October 2020. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 8 October 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
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