Anmol Alphonso

Anmol Alphonso

Anmol Alphonso is a fact-checker with BOOM. He has previously interned at IndiaSpend as a fact-checker and was a reporting intern at Times of India, Indian Express, and Mid-Day. He is a post-graduate diploma holder in journalism from St Paul’s Institute of Communication Education, Mumbai.

Is This The Female IAF Pilot Who Carried Out Air Strikes On Pakistan?
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Is This The Female IAF Pilot Who Carried Out Air Strikes On Pakistan?

Photo of female fighter pilot shared claiming her involvement in the air strike in Pakistan is false.

1 Nov 2019 11:21 AM GMT
CGI Video Shared As Military Robot Participating In Live Demo With Humans
Fake News

CGI Video Shared As Military Robot Participating In Live Demo With...

BOOM found that the actions in the video were digitally created and it was a parody.

31 Oct 2019 8:44 AM GMT
No, Russian President Vladimir Putin Is Not Attending Jallikattu Festival
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No, Russian President Vladimir Putin Is Not Attending Jallikattu...

OpIndia and MyNation missreported that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi would visit Tamil Nadu in

30 Oct 2019 1:24 PM GMT
Video Of A Robbery At Gunpoint In Pakistan Shared As From Mumbai
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Video Of A Robbery At Gunpoint In Pakistan Shared As From Mumbai

BOOM found that the viral video was from Karachi, Pakistan, and that the incident had occurred in August this year.

30 Oct 2019 7:32 AM GMT
8 Women Athletes Cut, Copy, Paste Tweets Thanking PM Modi For Bharat Laxmi Campaign
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8 Women Athletes Cut, Copy, Paste Tweets Thanking PM Modi For Bharat...

Using Twitter search we found that eight female athletes had tweeted identical tweets thanking PM Modi

26 Oct 2019 5:56 PM GMT
Video Of Raid On Spurious Salt Viral As Unhygienic Tata Salt Factory
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Video Of Raid On Spurious Salt Viral As Unhygienic Tata Salt Factory

The video shows a raid conducted by Tata salt on an illegal packaging unit in Punjab.

25 Oct 2019 9:15 AM GMT
Video Of Mentally Ill Man Thrashed Over Personal Enmity Shared With Communal Claims
Fake News

Video Of Mentally Ill Man Thrashed Over Personal Enmity Shared With...

Bhilwara police denied any communal reason behind the incident.

24 Oct 2019 12:48 PM GMT
Fake Graphic Claims Narendra Modi Has 70 Thousand Crores In Swiss Bank
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Fake Graphic Claims Narendra Modi Has 70 Thousand Crores In Swiss Bank

BOOM found no media reports about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swiss bank account.

23 Oct 2019 1:50 PM GMT
Sudarshan News Falsely Claims Asaduddin Owaisi Danced After Kamlesh Tiwari
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Sudarshan News Falsely Claims Asaduddin Owaisi Danced After Kamlesh...

BOOM found that Asaduddin Owaisi did not do the dance step after the death of Kamlesh Tiwari.

22 Oct 2019 2:06 PM GMT
2015 Incident Of Lucknow Cop Breaking An Old Man
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2015 Incident Of Lucknow Cop Breaking An Old Man's Typewriter Shared...

BOOM found that the images were from a September 2015 incident.

21 Oct 2019 11:40 AM GMT
Emergency Road Constructed In Japan Within 24 Hours? A FactCheck
Fake News

Emergency Road Constructed In Japan Within 24 Hours? A FactCheck

BOOM found the temporary road was opened for traffic after four months, and not 24 hours as claimed in the viral

17 Oct 2019 10:25 AM GMT
New Rs 1000 Note Released By RBI? Not Quite
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New Rs 1000 Note Released By RBI? Not Quite

The viral images show the thousand rupee note as 'imagined by artists'.

16 Oct 2019 3:20 PM GMT