Stories By BOOM FACT Check Team
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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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Fast Check
Fake ‘Drunk’ Arvind Kejriwal Video Revived
May 13A 2017 video of the Delhi CM has been edited to show him appearing intoxicated. The...
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Fake News
OMG, It’s Still Fake
May 11This is not art imitating life. This is photoshop and its being circulated again.
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Fake News
Did Amit Shah Ask People At A Rally ‘To Stay Back For Five Minutes To Listen To Him’? A FactCheck
May 4Aam Aadmi Party's Ankit Lal tweets a video of Amit Shah claiming he asked people at...
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Fake News
Debunked Video From Madhya Pradesh Revived As Suspect In Jammu & Kashmir’s Kathua Case
May 1BOOM had debunked the same video in April 2018 when it went viral with a similar...
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Fake News
Divya Spandana Tweets Photoshopped Picture While Targeting Modi
April 29The photoshopped image showing Hitler holding a little girl's ears is meant to show a likeness...
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Fake News
Porn Star’s Picture Falsely Shared As Samajwadi Party Candidate Azam Khan’s ‘Daughter’
April 24The viral picture with the misleading post is that of a porn star. Azam Khan has...
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Fake News
Photoshopped Image Of Priyanka Chaturvedi Sporting ‘Namo Again’ Surfaces
April 20Chaturvedi's face has been superimposed on the body of Hemisha Thakkar, a municipal councilor in Vadodra,...
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Fake News
Video Of A Brawl At Delhi Hotel Falsely Shared As Kashmiri Workers Beaten Up In Chandigarh
February 17An unrelated video of a brawl at a wedding reception in Delhi is being shared with...
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Fake News
No, Police Did Not Lathicharge Congress Workers For Saying ‘Pakistan Zindabad’
February 13An old video of a police crackdown on Congress workers in Chhattisgarh gets a Pakistani twist.
Boom Snips
- India To Be Severely ‘Water Stressed’ By 2050
A new study points to the risk that China and India will be facing severe water shortages due to a […]
- Bengaluru Violence Over New Provident Fund Rules
Thousands of garment workers in Bengaluru clashed with the police and set buses and cars on fire today, angry with […]
Fact Check
- Youth Set Ablaze In UP; Old Photo Goes Viral
The viral post uses an old image to show a recent incident in Gonda, UP, where four Muslim youth set ablaze a Hindu youth after a minor altercation […]
- Could PM Modi Have Used Digital Cameras And E-Mailing Services In 1988?
BOOM found that neither internet, nor digital cameras were readily available to the public prior to the 1990’s. […]
- Muslim Woman Slamming Arvind Kejriwal In Viral Video Is A BJP Worker
While the viral post claims a Muslim woman is slamming Arvind Kejriwal for misgovernance in Delhi, it does not mention her political affiliation. Nighat Abbass, the woman in the video, is a BJP member […]
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