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Politics
FB Weekly Ad Report: Poll Time Sees LDF And TMC Loosen Purse Strings
April 19BOOM investigates the top 20 Facebook pages to spend on political ads last week (07.04.2019 –...
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Fake News
Old Image Of Sundar Pichai Passed Off As Him Coming To India To Vote
April 18This viral image of him on Twitter was actually of his visit to his alma mater...
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Fast Check
Morphed Photo Shared To Claim Chandrababu Naidu Has Joined YSRCP
April 18The edited photo shows Chandrababu Naidu posing with YSRCP president Jagan Mohan Reddy
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Fake News
Old Prank Video Doctored And Revived With Anti-Congress Narrative
April 18In the original prank video, a son tells his father that his girlfriend is pregnant. The...
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Fake News
Viral Quote About Jawaharlal Nehru Attributed To Priyanka Chaturvedi Is Fake
April 18BOOM did not find any such tweet and contacted Chaturvedi who confirmed it is fake and...
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FactCheck
Is The United States Making India A Member Of NATO? A FactCheck
April 18A viral Facebook post misleadingly claims that the US will be inducting India as a full...
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Elections
Phase 2 Goes To Polls: Key Battles And All The Data Points You Need To Know
April 17The Association for Democratic Reforms released its second intensive report, revealing the background details of candidates...
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Elections
Phase 2 Polls: DMK, Congress Tops List Of Candidates With Criminal Charges
April 17Dynastic and celebrity candidates amongst those with the highest assets in the second phase the Lok...
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Fake News
No, This Little Girl Did Not Say ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’
April 17In the original video the little girl is reading snippets of the Ramayana.
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Fake News
Fake Phase 1 Exit Poll Graphic Predicts Congress In The Lead
April 17Under the provisions of Section 126-A of the Representation of the Peoples Act, 1951 exit polls...
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Fake News
Shocking Video Of A Fire At An Office Building In Dhaka Viral As Mumbai
April 17A shocking video showing people fall to their deaths while escaping a fire at a highrise...
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Fake News
Fact-check: Did Modi Say, “I Don’t Believe In Hindu Dharm”?
April 16The video is edited from a 2014 interview of Narendra Modi on Times Now
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Fake News
No, This Is Not A Photo Of Abhinandan Varthaman After Casting His Vote
April 13Viral post uses a picture of an Abhinandan doppelganger and claims that the IAF pilot has...
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Fake News
With Over 2.9 Million Members This Pro-Modi Facebook Group Is A Fake News Farm
April 11In the week beginning April 8, 2019 BOOM debunked several pieces of misinformation ranging from a...
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Fake News
Video Of Vajpayee’s Funeral Procession Shared As PM Modi Filing His Nomination
April 16The viral video showing PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah walking behind the hearse is shared...
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Fast Check
Old Images of Burqa Clad Man Viral With False Claim
April 11The images are likely from 2015 when a man was caught attempting to throw beef in...
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Fake News
A Fake Survey Citing The BBC Is Back, This Time Predicting A Congress Win
April 11The fake post claims that the survey was conducted by CIA, KGB and Mossad which predicts...
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Fake News
Image Of Deepika And Ranveer Wearing ‘Vote For BJP’ Scarves Is Photoshopped
April 11The original image is after the couple's wedding when they visited the Siddhivanayak Temple in Mumbai
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Fake News
No, These Are Not Fake Fingers Created For Casting Votes
April 10An image of prosthetic fingers is being circulated with a bizarre claim that they could be...
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Fake News
RBI Board Member S Gurumurthy Tweets Fake Newspaper Clipping
April 16BOOM found that the clipping shared was fake as it could be created through a Newspaper...
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Elections
Facebook Page ‘Shut The Fake Up’ Part Of Congress’ Digital Campaign
April 14The page is run by DesignBoxed, a political campaign management company hired by Congress
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Fake News
No, This Is Not Gurmehar Kaur Dancing On The Campaign Trail In Begusarai
April 11The viral post claims that the woman in the video, and the one standing by Kanhaiya...
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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
- 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 […]
- Facebook Takes Down Hundreds Of Pro-Congress Pages, BJP Pages Also Hit
Facebook stressed it was taking down these pages and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted. […]
Fake News Police
- Clipped Video From Sidhu’s Rally Goes Viral With Communal Narrative
In the viral video, Navjot Singh Sidhu can be heard raising the slogan of Allah-hu-Akbar from the stage. However, the portion were he says Jo Bole So Nihal and Bharat Mata Ki Jai have been clipped […]
- Old Image Of Sundar Pichai Passed Off As Him Coming To India To Vote
This viral image of him on Twitter was actually of his visit to his alma mater in 2017 […]
Fact Check
- Is The United States Making India A Member Of NATO? A FactCheck
A viral Facebook post misleadingly claims that the US will be inducting India as a full member of NATO […]
- Poorly Edited Pic Makes Congress A Target Of Social Media Ridicule
Although the image has been poorly edited it is not fake as alleged by some Twitter users. […]
