Media Outlets Falsely Report Singer Sonu Nigam Supported Unacademy
By Archis Chowdhury On Friday, several media outlets reported that Bollywood playback singer Sonu Nigam had tweeted out in support of educational technology company Unacademy, for firing a teacher after a video of him urging students to elect well-educated politicians, went viral on social media. BOOM found these reports to be false; according to our fact-check the media outlets erroneously mistook a verified X (formerly Twitter) user named Sonu Nigam, who had tweeted in support of Unacademy, as a tweet by the singer. Our fact-check reveals that the user that tweeted in support of the ed-tech ...