Babar lands in fake sexting media storm after ‘joke’ Indian tweet

16 days ago Dawn

NEW DELHI: Indian media is awash with articles on how Pakistan cricket captain Babar Azam was allegedly “sexting” another player’s girlfriend. The problem: it’s false news that originated in a “joke” tweet from a parody account. Nimo Yadav” account on January 15 said that Babar had been “sexting with gf [girlfriend] of another Pakistan cricketer”. Not only that, but the player was “promising her that her bf [boyfriend] won’t be out of team if she keeps sexting with him... The Twitter account holder said he took the image and video from a since-deactivated Instagram account.
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