We ran a keyword search on Google and on Dawn’s website but did not find any such article published by the Pakistan-based newspaper.
While analysing the viral screenshot, we saw several stylistic errors and words being misspelt. For instance, the word ‘pissing’ has been capitalised in the middle of the sentence.
We went through several articles published in Dawn and noticed that none of their headlines end with a full stop, but in the case of the viral screenshot, it does. Further, the word ‘efficiency’ has been misspelt as ‘efficiancy’.
FORMAT OF VIRAL IMAGE IS DIFFERENT
We also found that the format of the article seen in the viral screenshot is different from Dawn’s official format.
In any article published by Dawn, under ‘Today’s Paper’, one can see a long black line with several sections mentioned underneath. However, no such thing can be seen in the viral screenshot.
Further, advertisements appear just above the headline, and thus,…