Old Photo of Reuters Building Shared as NYSE Featuring BJP’s Win in UP

We could trace the photo back to 2017 and found that it is a regular feature for the news agency to air news alerts.

A photo of a building which features a news alert that states 'Modi wins landslide election victory in India's biggest state' is being shared on social media.

The claim notes that it is the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in the United States which rolled out the news alert after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged victorious in the recently concluded Assembly elections.

However, we found that the photo is old and it shows the Reuters' building and not the New York Stock Exchange. Further, this wasn't a unique feature for the Indian polls. The international news agency regularly features news alerts on its building.

CLAIM

The post is being shared with a caption that reads, "Please zoom for see the message of stock exchange New York (sic)."

The same post was shared on Facebook too. The archived posts can be seen here and here.

The Quint received a message about the image on its WhatsApp tipline as well.

WHAT WE FOUND OUT

We searched the headline of the digital scroll from the photo that read "Modi wins landslide election victory in India's biggest state" and found out that Reuters carried a photo story with the same headline in March 2017.

This was after the BJP won the Assembly election in 2017 in Uttar Pradesh.

Next, we conducted a Google reverse image search on the photo, and found that the photo was shared by BJP IT Cell Incharge Amit Malviya and Rajya Sabha MP Om Prakash Mathur on Twitter back in 2017.

Their tweets mentioned the place to be Canary Warf, a district of London.

On conducting a keyword search for the same, we found out that the photo was from the Reuters building in London and not NYSE in the US.

The photo from a stock photography agency Alamy confirms the location to be Thompson Reuters building in Canary Wharf, London.

Further, this wasn't a unique feature for the Indian polls. Reuters' building does feature news alerts. We found various photos on Alamy which showed different news alerts.

Evidently, the picture is old and does not display any news about the recent election results of Uttar Pradesh at NYSE.

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