{"id":2987,"date":"2020-12-19T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T07:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=141250"},"modified":"2020-12-19T07:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T07:26:19","slug":"govt-fact-checks-its-own-fact-checking-arm-pib-on-false-news-about-ib-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/19\/govt-fact-checks-its-own-fact-checking-arm-pib-on-false-news-about-ib-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt fact-checks its own fact-checking arm PIB on false news about IB recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A now-deleted tweet by government-run PIB Fact Check claimed that an Intelligence Bureau (IB) recruitment circular floating online has not been issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and is fake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-wrap-image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82716 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/30ee1403-ad69-4abf-b5ea-cea97ceda098-1.jpg\" alt width=\"684\" height=\"910\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PIB later took down its December 16 tweet.<\/p>\n<h4>I&amp;B Ministry fact-checks PIB Fact Check<\/h4>\n<p>Two days after PIB\u2019s claim, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&amp;B) contradicted the fact-check by the government\u2019s media arm. Its publication division tweeted that the IB has confirmed that the advertisement is genuine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Important notice regarding an advertisement of MHA being published in Employment News. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s5d3RMrQoV\">pic.twitter.com\/s5d3RMrQoV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Publications Division (@DPD_India) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPD_India\/status\/1339530991732310016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The same was tweeted by the Twitter handle of I&amp;B Ministry\u2019s weekly job journal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Important notice regarding an advertisement of MHA being published in Employment News. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kqDMPUaZiu\">pic.twitter.com\/kqDMPUaZiu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EMPLOYMENT NEWS (@Employ_News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Employ_News\/status\/1339530901831610368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in June, PIB had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/pib-fact-check-blunders-again-incorrectly-declares-up-stf-advisory-on-chinese-apps-as-fake-news\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blundered another fact-check<\/a> when it claimed that media reports on Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UPSTF) directing its personnel and their family members to delete 52 Chinese applications from their mobile phones for security reasons is \u201cfake news\u201d. PIB\u2019s tweet is yet to be taken down even as ADG Prashant Kumar informed about the advisory in a video statement to the press. The government agency also published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/3-out-of-4-deaths-that-pib-fact-checked-attributing-them-to-long-term-illness-are-misleading-fact-checks\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unsubstantiated fact-checks<\/a> declaring migrant workers who died in Sharmik trains during COVID lockdown had pre-existing conditions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"enhancedtextwidget-12\" class=\"widget widget_text enhanced-text-widget widget-shortcode area-arbitrary\">\n<div class=\"textwidget widget-text\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/19\/govt-fact-checks-its-own-fact-checking-arm-pib-on-false-news-about-ib-recruitment\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A now-deleted tweet by government-run PIB Fact Check claimed that an Intelligence Bureau (IB) recruitment circular floating online has not been issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}