WhatsApp is the top source of viral news and if the news is fake it is circulated at the lightning-fast speed. This is nothing new. WhatsApp is also trying to least circulate the news on its platform. However, the news channel must do a fact check before reading them out live on TV.
A video posted on Twitter shows Times Now’s lead anchors Navika Kumar and Rahul Shivshankar reading a WhatsApp forward. The message has the name of 30 Chinese soldiers who are killed in the encounter with India.
They apparently read all the 30 names and both were competitive enough to read the names. In the below video, they can be clearly seen reading the names from the WhatsApp forward.
This is how @TimesNow anchors @navikakumar and @RShivshankar read out names of 30 Chinese Soldiers after they received a fake WhatsApp forward. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/j9wNppj0X3
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) June 17, 2020
Times Now anchors were least worried about verifying about its credibility but was more eager for there TRP rating and started reading it. People online slammed their shoddy journalism.
Our university never disappoint.. 🤦♂️
— Whats Appp University 🌐 (@Whats_appp_uni) June 17, 2020
How do they manage to read out on air from a whatsapp forward with a straight face!!!
— Manu Sebastian (@manuvichar) June 17, 2020
And they made a fool of themselves infront of the National media!
— Mohammed Waseem (@waseem33) June 17, 2020
Even china does not have that much information..
— Kim Jong Un (@noiamnotdead) June 17, 2020
And then TimesNow says they’re the most credible journalists…🤣🤣🤣
There are so many eggs on their faces by now, they must be having them for lunch and dinner by now.
— Self Reliant (@SelfieReliant) June 17, 2020
These TV Channels will stop their broadcasting if whatsapp is stopped working.
— Sam (@SamJersian) June 17, 2020
— Ram jee (@Majbootladka) June 17, 2020
No Sun Tzu and Mao on the list.
Disappointing.
— Enkidu (@Fallibilist1) June 17, 2020
