Twitter Photoshops Barkha Dutt Holding Pakistan Flag: Fake News Police

A Photoshoped image of journalist Barkha Dutt holding Pakistan's flag was shared on Twitter on Wednesday. The original tweet has since been deleted. Dutt, a favourite target for online�trolls who disagree with her views, retweeted the image saying "More fake news spotting from the RW Photoshop factory."

More fake news spotting from the RW Photoshop factory. https://t.co/GRfrx6RVid

� barkha dutt (@BDUTT) May 3, 2017

BOOM was easily able to find the original picture. A side by side comparison of the two photos show the image has been Photoshoped and cropped from a larger image on the right. BOOM reached out to Dutt about the picture but has not received a reply yet. The manipulated�image was created�by the Twitter handle�@Atheist_Krishna.

Sure.......! pic.twitter.com/9kddY7k01q

� Krishna (@Atheist_Krishna) April 27, 2017

A screenshot of an article�on www.careers360.com shows that the original image is at least a few years old.