Fact check: Is Nokia giving free smartphones to students & workers amid the pandemic?

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During ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, spreing of fabricated news and misleing information has taken over mainstream social media platforms. Be it WhatsApp or Facebook, fabricated information always seems to find its way to public. While some are wise eugh to understand that news sounding too good to be true is actually of that nature, ors incently fall prey to fabricated information and believe it. One such piece of information has w come to light. 

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kia giving away free phones?

Off-lately, a number of posts, specifically on Facebook have been witnessed to spre news of kia offering free smartphones to students and workers amid COVID-19 pandemic. viral mess claims that kia 'is rey to' give away 20K smartphones for students and workers and users only need a comment a single alphabet like 'T' or 'N' in order to get ir smartphones. Check out entire mess doing rounds on internet below - 

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KIA JULY FRESH GIVEAWAY FOR STUDENTS AND WORKERS

KIA company is rey to give away 20,000 brand new phones to people in this pandemic period, to attend online classes.

FREE KIA PHONE FOR STUDENTS & WORKERS

TO KIA PHONE
Comment a lot of "N" to have a big chance to win!! and to be ticed by us in comment section

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n Come inbox! via "SEND MESS" button bellow With Screenshot of your comment!

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Though posts seen above claim that kia 'is rey to' give away a certain amount of phones to students and workers, such official anuncement has come from Finland-based company. At latest, kia h held a competition on its official website which led to a selected few winning devices from ir kia 7.2 series of smartphones. Please te that kia was t 'giving away' phones but rar making users participate in a competition which enabled m to be a potential winner of device. But, this competition lasted only from October 17 to vember 07, 2019. 

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Im courtesy - official kia website

After this, official anuncement of any give away of smartphones was anunced by kia. Any official anuncements about competitions and giveaways by kia often get updated on ir official website, but, such tification can be seen on kia's website eir. Thus posts doing rounds on internet claiming that kia is giving away free smartphones to workers and students is actually False.