A post is being widely circulated on social media, claiming that Hyderabad Police have warned people against consuming any soft drink. It claims that an employee working in one of the soft drink manufacturing units had added his blood, contaminated by the Ebola virus, to the product.
The post is being shared on Facebook with a caption in Hindi: हैदराबाद पुलिस ने पूरे भारत में सूचना दी है। कृपया अगले कुछ दिनों तक माज़ा, फैंटा, 7 अप, कोका कोला, माउंटेन ड्यू, पेप्सी आदि कोई भी कोल्ड ड्रिंक न लें क्योंकि कंपनी के एक कर्मचारी ने इसे खतरनाक इबोला वायरस से दूषित रक्त में मिला दिया है। यह खबर कल NDTV चैनल में रिपोर्ट की गई थी। कृपया इस संदेश को जल्द से जल्द शेयर कर इस्लाम के लोगों की मदद करें। इस मैसेज को अपने परिवार को जरूर बताएं। अल्लाह आपको अच्छा इनाम दे अल-दाई अल-खैर:- हुजूर मुहद्दिस कबीर नेटवर्क (English translation: Hyderabad Police have given information all over India. Please do not take any cold drinks like Maaza, Fanta, 7 Up, Coca-Cola, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, etc., for the next few days as one of the company’s employees mixed it with blood contaminated with the dreaded Ebola virus. This news was reported yesterday by the NDTV channel. Please help the people of Islam by sharing this message as soon as possible. Do tell this message to your family.)
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be false.
After some investigation, we found that the news had gone viral in 2019 as well. Addressing the issue, the Hyderabad Police took to Twitter to clarify that they have issued no such advisory.
The tweet dated July 13, 2019, carrying a screenshot of the fake post, said: “Fake news spreading on social media about cold drinks and warning from Hyderabad city police is a fake one. Hyderabad city police never released any message regarding this.”
Fake news spreading on social media about cool drinks and a warning from Hyderabad city police is fake one and Hyderabad city police never released any message regarding this. pic.twitter.com/cCy32Vh7fN
— హైదరాబాద్ సిటీ పోలీస్ Hyderabad City Police (@hydcitypolice) July 13, 2019
We even searched for news reports by NDTV as it was claimed in the viral post that they carried the report but could not find any news report corroborating the post.
Doing a Reverse Image Search of the images of Coca-Cola bottles on the ground and two people inspecting two bottles, we found the photos were used in an article, dated September 21, 2015, on the website of Morung.
Hence, it is clear now that the post has gone viral with FALSE claims.
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