{"id":9266,"date":"2018-02-06T01:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T01:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/no-700-year-old-house-not-in-lori-armenia\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T01:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T01:30:43","slug":"no-700-year-old-house-not-in-lori-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2018\/02\/06\/9266\/","title":{"rendered":"No, 700-Year-Old House Not in Lori, Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photo with the caption \u201c700-year-old house in Lori\u201d was shared with lightning speed in the Armenian segment of Facebook. From the ArenaNews.am Facebook page alone, the photo was shared 400 times as of 10:30 pm on February 5. In 20 minutes, that number grew to 474.<\/p>\n

The photo, in fact, is of a house in the village of Kandovan in Iran. Checking the source of the photo isn\u2019t hard; you simply have to do a reverse image search online. Just as Media.am had presented in the article \u201cBeautiful Photo, But Not of Dilijan<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the comments below the photo shared by ArenaNews.am, Facebook user Razmik Amirkhanyan writes that it\u2019s not Lori in the photo, but Iran\u2019s Kandovan village, urging those who published the photo \u201cexplain that there was a misunderstanding\u2026 that would help your reputation more.\u201d Those responsible for the ArenaNews.am Facebook page paid no attention to the comment.<\/p>\n

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The ArenaNews.am Facebook page has 3,945 likes as of February 5 [since grown to 4,059]. The page represents the website ArenaNews.am. It has the appearance of a news website, but there is no editor\u2019s or journalist\u2019s name. In the About section, you can send a message to ArenaNews. There\u2019s a map where as the editorial office\u2019s possible address is marked Yerevan\u2019s Charles Aznavour Square.<\/p>\n

The ArenaNews.am domain is registered to someone by the name of Ruzanna Hovhannisyan. The contact details of the person who registered the website are available.<\/p>\n

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And though numerous users on Facebook continue to write that the photo is not of Lori, but of the Iranian village of Kandovan, all the same, in a period of 45 minutes, the number of people sharing the photo from ArenaNews\u2019s page increased to 557.<\/p>\n

Gegham Vardanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A photo with the caption \u201c700-year-old house in Lori\u201d was shared with lightning speed in the Armenian segment of Facebook. From the ArenaNews.am Facebook page alone, the photo was shared 400 times as of 10:30 pm on February 5. In 20 minutes, that number grew to 474. The photo, in fact, is of a house Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critique","category-verified","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}