Stories By Karen Rebelo
Fake News
India Is Teeming With ‘Cheapfakes’, Deepfakes Could Make It Worse
June 17Disinformation using videos in India so far have been clips of real incidents shared with a...
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Grisly Brazil Prison Riot Video Shared To Stoke Child-Kidnapping Rumours In India
June 15The horrific video showing chopped up body parts is from a prison riot that took place...
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Ajay Maken Tweets Cropped Video Of Amit Shah Saying ‘Don’t Vote For Meenakshi Lekhi’
May 3A mischievously edited video purports to show Amit Shah saying don't vote for New Delhi candidate...
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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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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 Twitter Account Posing As A British Scribe In India Busted
April 3A reverse image search of the account's profile picture showed that it was misusing a photo...
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2015 Cow Vigilante Video From Haryana Revived With Misleading Claim
March 27The incident appears to have taken place in Haryana in 2015 though few details are known.
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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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Meet The Fake Accounts Impersonating Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman
March 2Social media can't seem to get enough of Abhinandan Varthaman. Fake profiles impersonating the wing commander...
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Video Game Clip Goes Viral As IAF Air Strikes On Jaish Camp
February 26Viral video on social media is a simulation and not real footage.
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
- Row Over BJP Entrant Anju Ghosh’s Citizenship
In multiple interviews Anju Ghosh has said that she was born in Faridpur, Bangladesh and that the country is her motherland […]
- Was Jagan Mohan Reddy Blessed Only By Christian Priests While Taking Oath?A Fact-Check
BOOM found that the newly sworn in Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh was blessed by Hindu,Muslim and Christian religious leaders. […]
- Fake Quote Claims Shabana Azmi Said, ‘If Modi Wins This Time I’ll Leave The Country’
Fake quotes attributed to Bollywood actors critical of the government have increased since May 23, 2019. […]
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