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Fake News
Old Images Shared As ‘Proof’ Of BJP’s Role In College Street Violence
May 23BOOM found that one image is from Jamshedpur protests during a Bharat Band(2012), the other is...
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Fake News
Video Capturing Gang War Shootout In Delhi Shared As Bangalore, Mumbai
May 23The video is from Dwarka in Delhi when two gangsters opened fire at a member of...
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Elections
Live: 2019 Lok Sabha Election Results Visualised
May 23After six tumultuous weeks of polling in seven phases, the day of announcement of the results...
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Elections
LIVE: BJP Led NDA Cross The Half-Way Mark
May 22The counting of votes in the Lok Sabha election of the world’s largest democracy is underway,...
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Fake News
Did SP Workers Jump The Gun With A ‘PM Akhilesh’ Billboard? Not Quite
May 22Although grammatically incorrect the original hoarding wished Akhilesh Yadav for the new year.
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Fake News
Sanjay Dutt Converting To Islam? No, That’s Bad Photoshop
May 21BOOM ran a reverse image search and found that the original image of Dutt neither has...
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Politics
EC Refutes Allegations Of EVM Tampering As Videos Go Viral
May 21A source within the Election Commission on condition of anonymity said that there exists a three-layer...
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FactCheck
Were 300 EVMs Seized From A Shop In Uttar Pradesh?
May 21Viral posts claim that 300 EVMs were seized from a shop owned by a BJP leader...
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Elections
NaMo TV Goes Off Air As Lok Sabha Elections Come To An End
May 21NaMo TV was part of the BJP's campaign for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and was...
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Fake News
Lok Sabha Results: See How Far These Laddus Have Travelled
May 20Images of laddus being prepared in huge quantity were shared on social media a day before...
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FactCheck
Viral Child Abuse Video Is From Syria, Not Gujarat
May 20Politician Jignesh Mevani tweeted the same video with a caption that claimed the clip was that...
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Business
With Rs 27.4 cr, BJP Accounts For 50% Of Total Spending On Google, Facebook Ads
May 20BOOM summarised Google and Facebook's ad reports from February to highlight overall expenditure by parties.
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Fake News
Did Rajiv Gandhi Use A Digital Camera In 1983? A FactCheck
May 14BOOM found that the camera that Rajiv Gandhi held was not a digital camera.
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Fake News
Amul Ad Targeting Gandhis? No, It’s Utterly Butterly Fake
May 15BOOM found that the original cartoon welcomed Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's foray into politics.
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Fake News
This Picture Of Donald Trump Endorsing PM Modi Is A Hoax
May 16This picture is from 2015, and has also been exploited by Nigerian social media to show...
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Politics
Exit Poll Promotional Video Shows Dummy Data, Clarifies India Today
May 16India Today's editor Rahul Kanwal told BOOM that dummy data was used for tech checks in...
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Fast Check
Video Of Assailant Carrying Severed Head To Police Station Back With False Claim
May 14The beheading incident from Karnataka, involved two men from the Lingayat community who fought over a...
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Fake News
Riot Video From Bangladesh Passed Off As West Bengal
May 17Viral post claims the video show Muslims chasing Hindus out of West Bengal. The original video,...
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FactCheck
Could PM Modi Have Used Digital Cameras And E-Mailing Services In 1988?
May 14BOOM found that neither internet, nor digital cameras were readily available to the public prior to...
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Fake News
Sidhu Attacked With A Shoe? No, This Is Photoshopped
May 14The image is a composite of two separate and unrelated images.
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Fake News
Old Video Of Amit Shah Falling Passed Off As West Bengal
May 16The incident is from 2018 when Amit Shah was campaigning in Madhya Pradesh for the state's...
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Fake News
Was A TMC Worker Caught Pelting Stones In Kolkata Wearing A Saffron T-Shirt?
May 17The video has been projected as ‘TMC goons’, involved in the violence that ensued following BJP...
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BOOM Snips
Google Rolls Out Nougat Upgrade For Nexus Devices
August 24Google has officially begun rolling out Android’s 7.0 software upgrade to those with Nexus devices. ...
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BOOM Snips
Drone Captures Centre Of Ubinas Volcano Crater In Peru
August 24Vulcanologists used a drone to inspect the crater of Peru’s Ubinas volcano on August 21. ...
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BOOM Snips
Earth Quakes In Italy – Tremors Recorded Of 6.2 Magnitude
August 24A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit central Italy and rescuers are searching for survivors. At least 21...
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BOOM Snips
World’s Longest, Highest Glass Bottom Bridge Opens In China
August 23Touted as the “world’s highest and longest” glass-bottom bridge, it stretches between two mountain peaks in...
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BOOM Snips
One Of India’s Richest Temples, Just Got Richer
August 23Siddhivinayak Temple, a two century-old temple in Mumbai just raised Rs. 1.1 crores by auctioning off...
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BOOM Snips
Coral Bleaching In A Reef, Caught On Camera
August 23Rare video footage shows the violent act of coral bleaching, caused by high sea water temperatures...
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BOOM Snips
It Took Four Fire Fighters To Rescue This Boy From A Sofa
August 23The four-year-old somehow managed to squeeze into a gap in the furniture at a pedicure shop...
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BOOM Snips
Rio Olympics Comes To A Close
August 22The Rio Olympics ended with a spectacular carnival-inspired closing ceremony, and the official handover to 2020...
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BOOM Snips
Mongolian Wrestling Coaches Strip In Olympics
August 22A pair of Mongolian wrestling coaches stripped off their clothing in a protest of a call...
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BOOM Snips
Doctors In Punjab Operate On A Policeman Who Swallowed 40 Knives
August 22Surgeons in Punjab have removed 40 metal knives from a patient who had an ‘uncontrollable urge’...
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BOOM Snips
PV Sindhu’s Olympic Silver Creates History In More Ways Than One
August 22PV Sindhu became India’s first woman to win an Olympics silver medal on August 19 after...
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Culture
Calling Hinduism A Way Of Life Is Meaningless: Sanjeev Sanyal
August 22Who is a Hindu? What does he believe or can he be an unbeliever and still...
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FACT FILE
- Delhi University Professors Divided On PM Modi’s ‘Bhrastachari No.1’ Jibe About Rajiv Gandhi
While 207 professors from Delhi University have condemned the controversial remark by signing a public statement, as many as 121 professors have expressed their support for PM Modi. […]
- Congress Pledges To Scrap Sedition: All You Need To Know About The 160-Year Law
Tilak in 1908 and Kanhaiya Kumar in 2016 were both victims of India’s sedition law – a remnant of the British era in Indian law […]
Fake News Police
- Did SP Workers Jump The Gun With A ‘PM Akhilesh’ Billboard? Not Quite
Although grammatically incorrect the original hoarding wished Akhilesh Yadav for the new year. […]
- Sanjay Dutt Converting To Islam? No, That’s Bad Photoshop
BOOM ran a reverse image search and found that the original image of Dutt neither has him wearing a skull cap, nor is he seated in front of a lavish spread […]
Fact Check
- Were 300 EVMs Seized From A Shop In Uttar Pradesh?
Viral posts claim that 300 EVMs were seized from a shop owned by a BJP leader in Chandaulli of Uttar Pradesh. However, these were un-polled EVMs being moved by government officials from a strongroom in the district […]
- Viral Child Abuse Video Is From Syria, Not Gujarat
Politician Jignesh Mevani tweeted the same video with a caption that claimed the clip was that of a teacher torturing a student in Valsad. The Dalit leader had tagged the PMO India’s twitter handle demanding a reply […]
