May 7th 2024.
Let's fact-check this claim that has been circulating online. The verdict is false - the text in question has been copied from a user comment posted under a 2009 article by a daily publication.
So what exactly is the claim? It all started when Kiran Bedi, a former police officer and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, shared a post on her official X account on May 5th, 2024. In her post, she claimed that the message was an article by The New York Times, discussing the general elections in India. She even tagged The New York Times and the Election Commission of India in her post.
The post included a snippet of text that read, "THE INDIAN ELECTIONS – NEW YORK TIMES. It is
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