After Argentina won the FIFA World Cup 2022, a news report has gone viral on social media claiming that Lionel Messi is reportedly joining the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The description reads: “Lionel Messi to reportedly join BJP after winning FIFA WC”
The above post can be seen here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be false.
Searching for key words such as ‘Lionel Messi’, ‘Join’, ‘BJP’ on Google, we traced several news articles about the meme around some fact. Such articles can be seen here and here.
However, we did not find any credible news report supporting the viral claim.
Upon checking the Instagram handle which shared the post in question, the bio states that it is a satire account and the ‘page is intended purely for entertainment purposes. Nothing is real’.
Hence, the viral claim is false.
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