Som shared a wrong pic with so confidence on 27th as someone forwarded him, the pic was tweeted before by ANI.The basic problem remains that people like Mr Joshi dealt severe blows to credibility of whatever could be put out by putting out their own versions and using their credentials as a base for rendering some amount of 'acceptance'.
It did not help the matters either that Vishnu Som and others relied on him to put out their own write ups hence ended up with same story across multiple sources making the general public feel that what they are saying actually is what has happened.
In my DM with Vishnu Som, I had told him about inaccuracies in terms of for example AWACS, and he told me that he has been briefed by people who know. What can I say!
He also claim to have seen some High Resolution images of Balakot, "other than 31cm" publicly available by digital globe. Sometime he claimed he saw SAR image to sound more credible.
I honestly stopped believing anything he said when he kept lying about Balakot images repeatedly.