Fake TIME Magazine Cover Featuring Cartoon of Rahul Gandhi Viral

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BOOM has previously debunked this claim in June 2023 and December 2019 when other similar versions of the cover featuring both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi went viral. At the time, we used relevant keywords to find the original image that was published with a Los Angeles Times article on May 14, 2012. The article was headlined 'Republican Party suckles at the breast of Big Business' and dealt with allegations of the Republican Party of the United States seeking money from corporations during the 2012 elections. The original image showed a woman, not Rahul Gandhi, breastfeeding the baby. The text on the baby's clothes read 'GOP Congress' instead of 'Pak' where GOP refers to the Grand Old Party or Republicans. The suitcase in the woman's hand read 'Corporate Campaign Donations' unlike the viral claim that showed 'Terrorist Donations by Congress'