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Old Video From Canada Falsely Shared As New Zealand Gunman Beaten In Prison
March 24The video is over four years old. The incident took place on March 3, 2015 inside...
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Fake News
Priyanka Gandhi’s Morphed Photo On An Old Ganga Image Viral With False Claim
March 23BOOM ran a reverse image search on the images used in the collage and found that...
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Images From Old Rallies Shared As PM Modi’s Roadshow In Varanasi
March 23Images from Modi's campaigns from 2014 to 2017 viral with hashtag #MainBhiChowkidaar
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Entertainment
Mysterious Credits For Narendra Modi Biopic To Javed Akhtar and Sameer
March 23BOOM spoke to Javed Akhtar, who denied having written any such lyrics for the film
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Old Video Shared Claiming 350 People Converted To Islam In New Zealand
March 23BOOM found out that the video has been online since 2007 and has no connection to...
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FactCheck
Old Video Of BJP Workers Thrashed In Darjeeling, Revived
March 22The 2017-video has gone viral with a claim that BJP leaders seeking votes were thrashed by...
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FactCheck
RJD Uses Old, Unrelated Photos To Target PM Modi On Efforts To Clean The Ganga
March 22While two of the photos tweeted by the RJD are from 2013 and 2015, one of...
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FactCheck
Satire In The Time Of Fake News: Navbharat Times’ Holi Special Goes Viral As Real News
March 22The Hindi daily dedicated an entire page in the March 21 edition to satirical reports. However,...
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Fake News
Photoshopped Tweet Claims Ratan Tata Took A Swipe At PM Modi
March 22The viral tweet is from a fake Twitter handle and not Ratan Tata's official account.
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Business & Tech
The Prolific Manufactured Tweets That Helped Trend #MukeshNitaSaveAnil
March 20BOOM found that multiple Twitter influencers helped trend the hashtag 'MukeshNitaSaveAnil' by tweeting around 20 to...
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Business
Pro-BJP Pages Lower Expenditure; Newcomers In The List: FB Weekly Ad Report
March 20BOOM lists down the top 20 Facebook pages to spend on political ads last week (10.03.2019...
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Fake News
Six-Year-Old Video Of A Mob Vandalising A Church In Egypt Revived After NZ Mosque Attack
March 20The post claims that Muslims attacked a church in Pakistan retaliating against the Christchurch mosque shootings
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Fake News
Old Video Shared Claiming 350 People Converted To Islam In New Zealand
March 23BOOM found out that the video has been online since 2007 and has no connection to...
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Fake News
Old Photos From Egypt Shared As New Zealand Mosque Attack
March 17The viral photos are from older attacks on mosques and churches in Egypt and not the...
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Fake News
Old Political Cartoon Targeting The BJP Not Created By American Cartoonist
March 16BOOM got in touch with US-based cartoonist Ben Garrison, who clarified that the cartoon is not...
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Fake News
Morbid Curiosity, Bigotry Keep New Zealand Mosque Attack Video Alive In India
March 16It appears removing the videos, which many fear could either inspire copycat attacks or reprisals, are...
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Fake News
Six-Year-Old Video Of A Mob Vandalising A Church In Egypt Revived After NZ Mosque Attack
March 20The post claims that Muslims attacked a church in Pakistan retaliating against the Christchurch mosque shootings
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FactCheck
Satire In The Time Of Fake News: Navbharat Times’ Holi Special Goes Viral As Real News
March 22The Hindi daily dedicated an entire page in the March 21 edition to satirical reports. However,...
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Fake News
“If Indian Opposition Doesn’t Consider Masood Azhar A Terrorist, Why Should We?”: Did China Say This?
March 19The false claim is viral on Facebook and WhatsApp with a photo collage of three pictures,...
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Fake News
Photoshopped Tweet Claims Ratan Tata Took A Swipe At PM Modi
March 22The viral tweet is from a fake Twitter handle and not Ratan Tata's official account.
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Business & Tech
The Prolific Manufactured Tweets That Helped Trend #MukeshNitaSaveAnil
March 20BOOM found that multiple Twitter influencers helped trend the hashtag 'MukeshNitaSaveAnil' by tweeting around 20 to...
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Business
Tata Power Delhi Claims FB Page Hacked After It Runs Ads With PM Modi’s Image
March 19Facebook's ad library revealed that the power company's Facebook page had sponsored seven different posts with...
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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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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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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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