Following the festival of Diwali, a picture of floating lanterns has gone viral on social media and it has been claimed that it is from one of the ghats in Varanasi.
At the time of filing this report, the above picture was shared by over 7,700 Facebook users.
Assi Ghat #Varanasi wali #Diwali #HappyDiwali pic.twitter.com/6aOggqY8Zy
— Himanshu (@ImkHimansh) October 26, 2019
FACT CHECK
When NewsMobile fact-checked the above picture, we found it to be FAKE.
On cropping and putting the picture through Reverse Image Search on Yandex, we came across an individual picture of floating lanterns which was used in the viral picture.
On digging further we found that the picture was posted on Flicker on November 16th, 2011, during Yi Peng Khom Loi Festival 2013, at Thailand’s Maejo University.
In the above FAKE vs REAL collage, it is pretty clear that the picture of floating lanterns was superimposed using photoshop software to create the FAKE image.
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