Fact Check: Is Saudi Arabia thinking of stopping oil exports to India? Know the truth of viral claim

New Delhi: Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest oil exporter. More than 18 percent of India’s crude oil also comes from Saudi Arabia. In such a situation, users tweeted late at night that according to Al Jazeera’s report, Saudi Arabia may suspend oil exports to India. However, when Sajjag found out about the truth of these posts, these claims made on X turned out to be false.

What did the users claim?

A user on Twitter, @NHSMEDIA110, claimed that Saudi Arabia is considering stopping oil exports to India.

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A user named @Al_Noman24 also posted on X that Saudi Arabia is considering stopping the export of oil to India. he/she also gave the source to Al Jazeera. Along with this post, he/she had posted a picture of Saudi PM Mohammed bin Salman.

How true did this claim turn out to be during investigation?

When Sajjag’s team investigated these claims made on social media, all these claims were found to be fake. First of all, Sajjag’s team investigated the sources given in the viral post. al Jazeera Went and checked. There Sajjag’s team searched with keywords saudi arabia, saudi arabia oil, saudi arabia India, saudi arabia oil exports to India. However, no such report was found on all these keywords. In which it is said that Saudi Arabia is thinking of stopping oil exports to India.

This news was very important for India, so Sajag’s team also searched on some Indian Hindi and English websites. Although there is no information related to this Report Not found.

After that, when I tried to search further about these posts on X, I found out that similar tweets had gone viral a month ago also.

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conclusion: Saudi Arabia is considering stopping India’s oil exports. All these claims made on social media turned out to be old and fake. As per Sajjak’s investigation, no such report has been published on Al Jazeera in the last few months.