“Visuals of a person wearing an astronaut suit and walking on a pothole-ridden road in Jammu and Kashmir”
Social media posts
Claim dated 2 Sep 2022.
FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING
What FACTLY found
According to several news reports, this video was made by street artist Baadal Nanjundaswamy in September 2019 to highlight the problem of potholes in Herohalli, Bengaluru. It is not related to the road conditions in Jammu and Kashmir
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 2 September 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 5 September 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
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