A post is doing rounds on social media claiming that the Editor-in-Chief of The New York Times, Joseph Hope, praised PM Modi and his foreign policy in an article. Social media users are sharing ‘excerpts from the article purporting to be written by Joseph Hope’.
The post read, “*FINALLY THE US COMES TO UNDERSTAND MODI – INDIA !*
*Check New York Times view about PM Modi
Joseph Hope, Editor-in-Chief of the New York Times: Narendra Modi’s sole aim is to make India a better Country. If he is not stopped, in the future, India will become the most Powerful Nation in the World.. It will surprise even the USA, the United Kingdom, and Russia..Japan.
Narendra Modi is moving towards a specific goal. No one knows what he wants to do….and his intentions, strategy, cannot be predicted.
Behind the Smiling face, he is a dangerous Patriot. He uses all the Countries of the world for the benefit of his Nation……India.
First he destroyed US ties with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Next Narendra Modi has created an alliance with Vietnam, shattered China’s Superpower dream and made use of the three Countries.
The long-running dispute over oil extraction overseas between Vietnam and China has benefited India. With India’s support, Vietnam began producing Oil in China’s Southern Seas. …Read More.
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile did the fact-check and found it to be fake.
We looked for the name Joseph Hope on The New York Times website and found no person with this name in the organisation’s list of team members.
We found no such opinion section published on the NYT website. we also checked all the articles written in connection with PM Modi but did not find the viral article.
On further searching, we found that the communications team of the New York Times had clarified that there is no one named Joseph Hope who works for NYT and that the viral post is not true.
Thus, from the above fact check, it is clear that the viral post is false.
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