CHENNAI: Multiple mainstream media outlets recently carried a news item that said a young man, aged 22, had married woman who was 52 years old. The ‘reports’ did not carry any details about the newly-weds but featured a video that had seemingly gone viral on social media. Alt News ran a check and found that it was a scripted video posted on an Instagram channel that is being falsely reported as a marriage between the said people.

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