A banknote. Not a tracking device.
₹2,000, zero satellite superpowers. A remarkably ambitious job description for a piece of paper.
Original editorial illustration. Not an image of the event.
THE CLAIM
The ₹2,000 banknote contains a nano GPS chip that can track hidden cash.
Summary of the documented claim, not a verbatim quotation.False: the note did not contain a tracking chip
Back on planet Earth.
AFP examined circulating posts claiming a nano chip was hidden in the ₹2,000 note. Its reporting records the RBI’s denial and distinguishes the note’s security features from the supposed tracking device. A convincing diagram is not a hardware specification.
This entry concerns the chip rumour associated with the 2016 note and revived in later posts. It is not advice about the note’s present exchange or legal-tender status. The archived report contains examples of the circulating claim and the response.
The note could disappear from your wallet. That did not make it a stealth satellite.
BAKWAAS-O-METER™
Our editorial reaction to the claim, not its subject. The factual finding above is separate from the joke. How to read the meter →
They did it. Here are the receipts.
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AFP · reporting and RBI response
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Prepared 28 October 2026. No corrections recorded in this edition.