Congress spokesperson Shrinate spreads pretend information, attributes false quotes to White House spokesperson John Kirby

On Thursday, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate tried to unfold pretend information amid PM Narendra Modi’s go to to the United States. In an try to criticize PM Modi, Shrinate who has additionally labored as a journalist misquoted John Kirby, White House National Security Spokesperson. She indicatively claimed that Kirby had criticized PM Modi for not taking any press conferences within the final 9 years.

““It is unusual for PM Modi to take questions from the media, beyond occasional interviews. 𝐇𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨. In May 2019 he attended a press conference but never took questions.”: John Kirby, White House National Security Spokesperson,” her tweet learn.

Interestingly, the phrases diligently quoted by Shrinate have by no means been mentioned by John Kirby. Shrinate occurred to choose the quoted assertion from a just lately revealed Reuters report and falsely claimed that Kirby had acknowledged these.

Netizens mocked Shrinate for spreading pretend information by placing mistaken quotes within the identify of Kirby. They highlighted that the quotes utilized by Shrinate was really not a quote however a paragraph from a Reuters report. They additionally mentioned that if Kirby had mentioned these phrases, Reuters would have revealed the identical as his quote.

Fake News by @SupriyaShrinate!

John Kirby has by no means mentioned the traces Supriya has highlited in Bold letters. These traces have been put by @Reuters and that is why it is not in quotes.

Supriya was a Journalist, she is aware of how media studies. But nonetheless she selected to unfold Fake News! https://t.co/u041sUmJHo pic.twitter.com/0eB3Iv1gw0

— Ankur Singh (@iAnkurSingh) June 22, 2023

Reuters shouldn’t be White House 😂 pic.twitter.com/nWPLfVyLmp

— Shashank Shekhar Jha (@shashank_ssj) June 22, 2023

Reuters on June 22, revealed a report saying that US President Joe Biden and PM Modi would handle and take questions from journalists at this time amid the Indian chief’s state go to. The report additionally acknowledged that one of many senior White House officers had known as it a ‘big deal’.

Furthering the report, Reuters wrote, “It is unusual for Modi to take questions from the media, beyond occasional interviews. He has not addressed a single press conference in India since becoming prime minister about nine years ago. In May 2019 he attended a press conference but never took questions.” These precise phrases have been utilized by Shrinate to assert that John Kirby, White House National Security Spokesperson mentioned so.

However, as per the Reuters report, Kirby known as the occasion a ‘big deal’ and mentioned, “We are just grateful that Prime Minister Modi is participating in a press event at the end of the visit. We think that’s important and we’re glad he thinks that’s important too.”

Reportedly, Kirby yesterday in an unique interview to ANI mentioned that he was wanting ahead to deepening relations with India. “India is a world player and a net exporter of security and stability. India is already exporting security in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond, and they are contributing to the Indo-Pacific Quad. We are participating with India in the I2U2,” he mentioned.

PM Modi will attend the state dinner hosted in his honor by US President and the primary girl. The PM may also handle a joint sitting of the US Congress at this time.