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India lost to England in the semi-final of the recently concluded T20I Cricket World Cup by ten wickets. Against this background, a viral image showing a policeman standing next to broken televisions is circulating on social media. Users claimed that the Indian team’s fans broke their TVs and mobile phones after the loss to England.
A Facebook user posted viral image with caption: Forecast for more than half a year last week……… Now up to 42,893 TVs and 1,94,531 mobile phones সুত্র্র নান্যান্যান্যান্যান্যা (English translation: I can’t stand the sound of breaking the TV on the other side ………… So far, 42,893 TVs and 1,94,531 mobiles have been broken Source :- Anandabazar Patrika)
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NewsMobile fact checked the viral post, and found it to be a hoax.
Considering that users mention their source of information as Anandabazar Patrika – An Indian Bengali language daily newspaper, we checked it out official website of media networks to verify claims. We haven’t found any news related to Indian fans breaking their TVs and cell phones after the loss.
To check the authenticity of the viral image, we found a tweet from June 18, 2017, published in the official account of Times of Bombay.
One of the images in the tweet game and the viral image and its caption informed that they are from Ahmedabad where people broke their TV sets after the Indian team was defeated by Pakistan in the Champions Trophy 2017 final.
Searching about the picture more we found a Facebook post published on the official handle of Fun times (ETimes) on June 18, 2017. Here again, one of the images is related to the viral image, and according to it, the images are from Ahmedabad after India’s loss to Pakistan.
The same picture was published online on the website of a Pakistani media house Times of Islamabad June 19, 2017, same claim as in The Times and Times of Bombay.
We haven’t found a single reliable news source claiming that TV sets and mobile phones broke recently after India’s match in the T20I Cricket World Cup. Therefore, we can definitely say that the viral image, which claims 42,893 TVs and 1,94,531 mobiles were broken recently, is false.
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