These tweets on suffering of farmers, and on PM Modi, were made from imposter accounts of Neeraj Chopra - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
August 13, 2021
Couple of posts with screenshots of certain tweets are being shared on social media claiming those tweets are from Neeraj Chopra. The supposed tweets talk about the situation of farmers in India, and PM Modi. The posts can be seen here and here. Let us fact-check the claim made in these posts.
Claim: Neeraj Chopra tweets on suffering of farmers due to government atrocities, and on PM Modi.
Fact: These alleged tweets by Neeraj Chopra on the suffering of farmers due to government atrocities, and on PM Modi were made from imposter accounts of Neeraj Chopra. There are no reports of Neeraj Chopra making a statement about farmers suffering due to government’s atrocities or about urging people to not give credit to Modi for his gold medal. Had he made such statements, it would have been covered by the media or be seen in his official twitter handle. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Tweet 1:
When we searched on Twitter about the Twitter handle ‘@neeraj_chopra_’, we found that the account is suspended. Therefore, the Twitter account of the user who shared the first tweet about the suffering of farmers due to atrocities by the government is suspended.
The archived version of the Twitter profile which had supposedly made the first tweet can be seen here. The official Twitter handle of Neeraj Chopra is ‘@Neeraj_chopra1’. On comparing the official Twitter handle of Neeraj Chopra with the one that shared the supposed tweet, we found several discrepancies. The official account is a verified handle with over four lakh followers, as opposed to the other account having around 24,000 followers with no verified tick. Neeraj Chopra was born in Haryana, as opposed to New Delhi what the other account states.
Therefore, the tweet about the suffering of farmers due to atrocities by the government is made from an imposter account of Neeraj Chopra. We could not find any tweet or statement by Neeraj Chopra in which he talked about the suffering of farmers due to atrocities by the government. Had he given such a statement, it would have been covered by the media or be seen in his official Twitter handle.
Tweet 2:
When we searched on Twitter about the Twitter handle ‘@i_m_nirajchopra’, we found that the account does not exist anymore. Therefore, the Twitter account of the user who shared the second tweet about urging people to not give credit to Modi for his gold medal win does not exist anymore.
The archived version of the Twitter profile which had supposedly made the second tweet can be seen here. The official Twitter handle of Neeraj Chopra is ‘@Neeraj_chopra1’. On comparing the official Twitter handle of Neeraj Chopra with the one that shared the supposed tweet, we found discrepancies. The official account is a verified handle with over four lakh followers, as opposed to the other account having around 2,000 followers with no verified tick.
Therefore, the tweet about urging people to not give credit to Modi for his gold medal victory is made from an imposter account of Neeraj Chopra. We could not find any tweet or statement by Neeraj Chopra in which he talked about urging people to not give credit to Modi for his gold medal victory. Had he given such a statement, it would have been covered by the media or be seen in his official Twitter handle.
Neeraj Chopra won the Gold Medal in Javelin throw on 07 August 2021 at the Tokyo Olympics. It is India’s first-ever track and field medal in the Olympic games. Neeraj Chopra comes from the small village of Khandra in Panipat District, Haryana. Neeraj Chopra’s father Satish Chopra has a farming background but there are no news reports of Neeraj Chopra making a statement about farmer’s suffering due to the government’s atrocities. There are no news reports about Neeraj Chopra urging people to not give credit to Modi for his gold medal win either.
To sum it up, tweets on the suffering of farmers, and on PM Modi, were made from imposter accounts of Neeraj Chopra.