News of Indian journalist Nidhi Razdan getting scammed into believing that there was a job offer from Harvard university has found its way into Russian media. The Twitter handle of state-controlled international TV network RT pointed out that getting tricked by a fake job offer amounts to “poor fact-checking skills”.
“Those are some poor fact-checking skills”, RT tweeted while sharing a report about the incident in the same tweet.
Those are some poor fact-checking skillshttps://t.co/2cUKOaQfIW
— RT (@RT_com) January 15, 2021
Joshua Benton, the former Director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, stated that the institution “has no school of journalism, no department of journalism, and no professors of journalism”.
Wow — this is awful.
For the record, @Harvard has no school of journalism, no department of journalism, and no professors of journalism.
(It does have @niemanfdn! But we have no faculty and no classes. And it does have @ShorensteinCtr, but no journalism-specific faculty.) https://t.co/AiMYkcrB6Q
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) January 15, 2021
Social media users have pointed out that the Nidhi Razdan had prematurely declared herself as a faculty at Harvard, before starting the non-existent job at the prestigious American university.
Though @Nidhi has declared it in her Twitter Profile Bio, as of now #Harvard does not appear in the Master Faculty List yet. Even the course is not listed as yet. Is it because website is not updated or is she teaching in the spring term or change of mind by Harvard? pic.twitter.com/gwPJgHOWfq
— Suresh N (@surnell) September 4, 2020
Arre yaaaaaaar 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/WROMimB00V
— अंकित जैन (@indiantweeter) January 15, 2021