Fake Newspaper Clipping Falsely Shared As Rahul Gandhi Arrested At US Airport

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BOOM performed a reverse image search on the newspaper clipping and found various online tools that creates newspaper clipping in the same format. We used the clipping generator tool offered by the website fodey.com and were able to create the exact image entering the same details mentioned in the viral clipping. We further noticed that the generated clipping contains the same text on its bottom right side when compared to the viral one. However, a The Hindu article from September 29, 2001, published a source-based report titled, 'Was Rahul Gandhi detained by the FBI?' An excerpt from the article reads, "With the U.S. security agencies leaving nothing to chance after the September 11 terrorist strikes, sleuths of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ``detained'' Mr. Rahul Gandhi, son of the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, and the Leader of the Opposition, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, for about an hour at the Boston airport early this week, sources here said." BOOM had debunked the same fake newspaper clipping when it went viral in 2019.