DeTect: US VP-elect Kamala Harris did not sport a sari in India

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15 Nov 2020, 11:17 pm

Chennai

Last week, a politician posted an image of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in a sari and later deleted it. He wrote, “America’s Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the one who learnt about mother India’s heritage from her mother. This seven-year-old image of her at a Ganesh temple in Chennai speaks a lot.” Alt News performed a reverse search and found an identical image that shows a different woman wearing the same sari. It was posted in 2017 by a lifestyle website.

First published on www.altnews.in

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