Akshay Kumar’s Fans Share Fake Newspaper Clipping on SRK

Relax! Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s application of Canadian citizenship has not been rejected.

A newspaper clipping doing the rounds on social media, falsely claimed that Shah Rukh Khan’s Canadian citizenship was rejected.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

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CLAIM

A newspaper clipping doing the rounds on social media claims that Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s citizenship application was rejected by the Canadian Ministry of Immigration.

The clipping read, ‘On Monday Canadian Ministry of Immigration rejected the application of citizenship applied by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan citing security reasons.’

The newspaper clipping is viral on social media.(Photo: Twitter)

The newspaper clipping was shared by social media users on Twitter and Facebook.

TRUE OR FALSE?

The claims made about the newspaper clipping are false. Fake news debunker Social Media Hoax Slayer spotted the viral clipping and debunked it. It was further independently verified by us.

WHAT WE FOUND OUT?

The clipping has been created by Akshay Kumar’s fans and has been widely tweeted by them. During our verification, we found that the newspaper clipping has been made using a newspaper clipping generator named fodey.com, which has a set template wherein one can change the name of the newspaper, headline, date and text of the story.

The online newspaper clipping generator helps you in making newspaper clippings using fixed template.(Photo: Screengrab of fodey.com)

We tried making our own newspaper clipping using the template available on the website.

We entered name of the newspaper, headline, date and text of the story.(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

Interestingly, the text in the third column always remains the same irrespective of the entered text.

The third column indicated in red is same in the altered (left) and the viral (right) image.(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

SAME TOOL USED FOR KEJRIWAL AND RAHUL GANDHI IN THE PAST

Similar fake claims have been made about Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Congress President Rahul Gandhi in the past, using the same editing tool. Kejriwal was accused of raping a woman in the hostel of the India Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, where he went to pursue engineering in 1987.

Another newspaper clipping had earlier claimed that an 'Indian politician' who was the son of a former Indian Prime Minister had been detained by the Boston airport security, indicating that it was Rahul Gandhi.

SHAH RUKH KHAN VS AKSHAY KUMAR?

Soon after the claims made by the fake newspaper clipping, a war of words broke out between the fans of Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar. Both sides took a dig at each other.

AKSHAY KUMAR ON CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP

Actor Akshay Kumar recently issued a statement wherein he responded to the controversies around his citizenship and said that he has never hidden or denied that he holds a Canadian passport.

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