A Fabricated Screenshot of Rana Ayyub
The Claim
Rana Ayyub condoned the beheading in France and justified the recent attacks in a CNN show.
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Emerging story
A viral screenshot of Rana Ayyub on CNN is widely circulating online. The screenshot shows Washington Post’s journalist saying, “you cannot hate all Muslims for just two beheadings.”
Users shared the image with captions criticizing and mocking Ayyub.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar's reverse image search found that the circulating screenshot fabricated. The screenshot is originally from an interview of Rana Ayyub in a CNN show in March 2020. Ayyub was in the show to comment on the dozens killed in New Delhi during Donald Trump’s visit to India. Fareed Zakaria’s show on CNN was aired on March 1, 2020 before the recent French attack.
Violent communal clashes killed dozens in New Delhi during President Trump’s visit to India.
— CNN (@CNN) March 1, 2020
“All this was happening at the same time as Trump was... telling the world that Modi has got everything in control,” Indian journalist @RanaAyyub says.https://t.co/Le24mtzW8d pic.twitter.com/WQQXSHoecw
On Twitter, Ayyub rubbished the fake picture stating that the image has been morphed and the statement attributed to her is fake. Ayyub called the image morphed and said she is sick of battling disinformation.
The Indian right wing at it again. Morphed a fake statement on an old image stating that "you cannot hate all muslims for just two beheadings". This image has been shared a thousand times all over social media and i am sick of battling this disinformation. pic.twitter.com/UbpQZG83bM
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) October 30, 2020
During our investigation, we also realized a spelling mistake in Rana Ayyub's name.
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