Stories By BOOM FACT Check Team
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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.
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Did TMC Workers Attack Hindus During BJP’s Kolkata Rally?
February 11The first two images are from a protest by young job aspirants in Lucknow outside the...
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No, Yogi Adityanath’s Chopper Did Not Land In Bengal
February 8The viral video is a year old and was shot when the UP CM had visited...
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No, This Photo Of Rajiv Gandhi And Narasimha Rao Was Not Taken At Indira Gandhi’s Funeral
February 1A three decade old photograph has been revived on social media fuelling an old conspiracy theory.
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No, Arvind Kejriwal Was Not Intoxicated And Slurring
January 9A 2017 video is edited to show Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appearing intoxicated.
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FactCheck
Did Chhattisgarh Minister TS Singh Deo Touch Rahul Gandhi’s Feet?
December 19A photo of TS Singh Deo bowing to touch Rahul Gandhi's feet is viral on social...
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Fake News
Text On PM Modi’s Football Jersey Edited To Imply He Is A Fraudster
December 4The football jersey gifted to PM Modi by FIFA president did not have 420 written on...
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BJP IT Chief Amit Malviya Tweets Cropped Video Of Former PM Manmohan Singh
November 28Did Manmohan Singh say the governments of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were very good?
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Maratha Agitation Images Shared As VHP’s ‘Dharm Sabha’ In Ayodhya
November 26As VHP cadres descend on Ayodhya, old images from the Maratha Morcha go viral.
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
- ‘Lone Gunman Or Pak Proxy?’: How NewsX Used A Facebook Post To Fan A Conspiracy
While the Facebook post was proof that the gunman visited Pakistan in 2018, NewsX used speculation and conjecture to suggest Tarrant’s visit to the country was somehow linked to the attack […]
- Only News 24×7: From A PV Sindhu Fan Page To A Misinformation Factory
The page which churns out a constant stream of misinformation started out as an unofficial fan page of badminton player PV Sindhu […]
- Momo Challenge A Hoax But Peppa Pig-Momo Edited Videos Still On YouTube
BOOM’s fact-check shows that while the Momo challenge continues to be a hoax, prank videos by individual users where Momo imagery has been edited into Peppa Pig cartoons is visible on YouTube. […]
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