CLAIM
Former Pakistani High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit was widely mocked for his faux pas on social media as he mistook porn star Johnny Sins for a Kashmiri man who lost his vision because of pellets.
The former Pakistan envoy to India retweeted a post which said, "Yousuf from ananthnag lost vision from pellet... pls raise your voice." However, Basit deleted the tweet later.
WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
The photo Basit retweeted is a still from a porn film. The man and the woman in the picture are actors Johnny Sins and Angeline Valentine.
WHAT WE FOUND
On conducting a Google reverse image search, we came across a screenshot of a post with the same image titled 'To cure cancer, over 200 thousand people commented "amen" to a porn scene."
A deeper dive into the story led us to a website called encontro News with a story on the same image titled 'Photo of cancer patient who is touching netizens is a porn movie scene.'
According to the website, a still from a porn film was posted by a Facebook user on her profile in 2016, narrating the ordeal of her brother who had terminal cancer.
Another website called vandamn carried the same story. According to vandamn, the image was accompanied by a caption asking people to comment “Amen” to help with her brother’s treatment and over two lakh people had complied with her request.
Spanish national daily newspaper ABC also reported the story titled 'La foto de un enfermo de cancer que conmociona Facebook es una escena de una pelicula porno,' which roughly translates to 'The picture of a cancer patient who shocks Facebook is a scene from a porn movie.'
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