Round-up: how disinformation followed rahul gandhi during the bharat jodo yatra
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During the course of the march, several handles claiming to be associated with Congress and some individuals supporting the party also, indulged in sharing misinformation to claim that the
yatra was a success. While the Yatra did see a massive turnout, the two pictures that were shared were old and unrelated. A similar claim was shared by accounts linked to Congress to to show
a massive crowd in the Yatra in Jhalawar, Rajasthan. However, we found that the images were of a mass gathering at Jai Gurudev Ashram, Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi is due to end his
3,500-kilometre journey next week. The fact-checks above shows that it was not only supporters of the BJP but several senior leaders who targeted Gandhi by using m/disinformation in an
attempt to mock and discredit the leader and the Yatra. These included doctored videos, edited images and sometimes depending on old archival videos.