Fact Check: Was the name of JNU changed to Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar? Know the truth of the viral post

New Delhi: After the uproar in Parliament a few days ago over the name of Baba Saheb Ambedkar, many posts went viral on social media. Some of those posts claimed that the name of JNU University has been changed to Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar. Let us know the truth of this claim

What are the claims of the users?

A user named @LogicLitLatte shared a photo on social media and claimed that BJP has changed the name of JNU to Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar.

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there one Meenakshi Sundaram A Facebook user named also shared this picture. In which it was written that the name of Jawaharlal Nehru University has been changed to Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar.

What was found in the investigation?

When Sajag’s team investigated the social media viral post, the claim turned out to be completely false. First of all, Sajjag’s team searched the JNU website regarding viral claims and did not find anything there. Along with this, no information was found on Google regarding this claim of the users. After that, Sajjag’s team searched on Google whether the name had ever been changed before or whether there was a proposal to change it and many media reports came up. presswire18 Times A report for the year 2021 was found on the website of. In which it was told that the then Union Education Minister Nishank had said that the government does not have any proposal to change the name of JNU.

After that Sajjag’s team tried to find out the truth of the picture being shared with the viral claims. When the picture was uploaded on a website named decopy.ai, according to its results this picture was found to be fake.

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After that Sajjag’s team checked this picture with the help of another tool. Sajjag’s team also uploaded the picture on True media. According to the result of which this picture has been tampered with.

According to the result of True Media, the viral picture was detected as an AI-Generated Image.

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conclusion: The claim on social media about changing the name of JNU to Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar turned out to be completely false. Along with this, the picture shared with this claim was also found to be created by AI.