A picture of a boy without limbs is doing the rounds on social media in which he can be seen with a placard that reads ‘LIKE’.
The text on the picture in Hindi read: “आज मेरा जन्मदिन है आपलोग विश करोगे”
(Translation: Today is my birthday, will you all wish me)
At the time of filing this report, the above post was liked by over 30,000 Facebook users and had over 2,500 comments.
ALSO READ: Fact Check: No, Donald Trump did not mock George Floyd’s death;…
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above picture and found it to be morphed.
On putting the above picture through a Reverse Image Search, we came across several posts that featured the same picture with different text on the placard.
Upon our research, we came across an article dated April 23, 2015, which featured the original picture.
As the caption mentioned that the real story was from Today.com, we tracked down the original article on there. It was dated September 11, 2014.
According to the article, the boy in the picture is Bowen Toomey, who was born without arms and legs, yet, manages to do everything independently.
In the above FAKE vs REAL collage, it is clear that the picture in question has been manipulated using photo editing software. The original oh tire only has the letter ‘K’ written on it while the morphed one has ‘Like’ written on it.
If you want to fact-check any story, WhatsApp it now on +91 88268 00707
Error: Contact form not found.