By Archis Chowdhury Georg Fahrion – the Beijing correspondent for German news website Der Spiegel, tweeted out a satirical thread containing a series of images from Beijing, to joke about the rumours of a coup d’état against Chinese President Xi Jinping. However, Hindi news channel Republic Bharat used his tweets and images, and ran them as breaking news and exclusive report that apparently confirmed these rumours. The channel posted a 10-minute report on YouTube and Facebook, where it ran the images from Fahrion’s thread, stating that reports are coming in of ‘elite forces being deployed at X…