“Facebook India’s Public Policy Director Ankhi Das, disrespected the country by cutting a cake with the Indian tricolour”
Social media posts
Claim dated 21 Aug 2020.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The woman shown in the post is Sangeetha Bahadur, the Indian Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus. Sangeeta Bahadur had cut the tricolour Indian Flag cake on the occasion of 74th Independence day celebrations at Indian Embassy in Minsk, Belarus. It has nothing to do with Facebook India’s Executive Ankhi Das
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 21 August 2020. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 26 August 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
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