Fact-Check:Old video of a press conference falsely shared as Trump-Modi’s conference. Here’s the Truth
Megha Bajaj 
Old video of a press conference falsely shared as Trump_Modi's conference. Here's the Truth
A video showing an American journalist laughing at the question of an Indian journalist during a conference. Several users have shared this video on social media platform X(formerly Twitter) and claimed that American journalists are laughing at the stupidity of India’s brainless spineless journalists during the joint Trump-Modi press conference. Interestingly, they have associated this video with the Trump-Modi’s latest conference.
Sharing this news on X, a user named Ashok Swain wrote: “American journalists are laughing at the stupidity of India’s brainless spineless journalists during the joint Trump-Modi press conference”
Furthermore, several users shared this news and stated similar facts. The preview can link can be seen here and here.
Fact-Check
In the probe, the DFRAC team found that the video dated back to Oct 2020 when Trump addressed the media at a conference on coronavirus at the White House, in Washington DC.
A reverse-image search regarding the keyframes generated from the viral video, led us to some reports by India Today and The Tribune from Feb 2020, carrying the screengrab from the above viral video.
The reports stated that US President Donald Trump addressed the media at a conference on coronavirus at the White House, Washington DC, on February 26. Meanwhile, a video of a New York Post journalist making fun of an Indian reporter during the conference had surfaced on the internet and had left netizens furious.
In the video, an Indian journalist could be seen asking a question about India-US relationships post Trump’s maiden visit to the country. While the reporter was asking the question, the NY Post reporter, who was sitting behind him, was seen making faces at him.
The reports also mentioned that shoutouts were given by journalist Damon Imani to the Indian Journalist Raghubir Goyal. The tweets given in reports stated in his remarks:”He has been a White House reporter since President Carter and he speaks better English than most of us speak Hindi,”
Conclusion
DFRAC ‘s fact-check clearly shows that the recently shared viral video dates back to Feb 2020, having no connection with the Trump-Modi’s latest conference.
Analysis: Misleading
Siddharth Urmil 
