Nivedita Niranjankumar

Nivedita Niranjankumar

A former city correspondent covering crime, Nivedita is a fact checker at BOOM and works to stop the spread of disinformation and misinformation. When not at work, she escapes into second-hand bookstores, looking for magic or a mystery.

Video From Pakistan Passed Off As Social Distancing Flouted In Hyderabad
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Video From Pakistan Passed Off As Social Distancing Flouted In...

BOOM found that the video is from a market in Faisalabad, Pakistan

21 May 2020 10:42 AM GMT
Video Of A Robbery In Delhi Peddled With False Claims About Migrants
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Video Of A Robbery In Delhi Peddled With False Claims About Migrants

BOOM found that the Delhi police have arrested the accused, who are locals with a criminal record.

15 May 2020 12:03 PM GMT
March 20 Video Peddled As Muslims Violating Lockdown To Offer Namaz
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March 20 Video Peddled As Muslims Violating Lockdown To Offer Namaz

BOOM found that viral video is a cropped version of a longer video shot on March 20, 2020 where the person recording...

14 May 2020 1:08 PM GMT
Photo Of Rohingya Muslims Shared As Plight Of Migrants In Lockdown
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Photo Of Rohingya Muslims Shared As Plight Of Migrants In Lockdown

BOOM found that the photo is from 2017 and shows a Rohingya Muslim man fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

12 May 2020 5:11 PM GMT
Video Of Migrant Workers At Delhis Anand Vihar Shared As Mumbai
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Video Of Migrant Workers At Delhi's Anand Vihar Shared As Mumbai

BOOM found that the video is from March 28 at Anand Vihar terminal when workers were trying to get home to Uttar

11 May 2020 2:06 PM GMT
Viral Message Warning About Rise In Crimes Post Lockdown Not From Police
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Viral Message Warning About Rise In Crimes Post Lockdown Not From...

The message claims that since wages have been hit by the lockdown, incidents of crime will spike once restrictions are...

6 May 2020 2:13 PM GMT
Old Photo From Bangladesh Peddled As Hindu Woman Beaten Up In Kerala
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Old Photo From Bangladesh Peddled As Hindu Woman Beaten Up In Kerala

The photo is from Bangladesh when a woman was attacked by her neighbours - Pradeep Ghosh and his son Biswajit

30 April 2020 12:26 PM GMT
No, This Is Not A Candid Photo Of Sonia Gandhi
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No, This Is Not A Candid Photo Of Sonia Gandhi

BOOM found that the original photo is of Marilyn Monroe clicked in 1954

27 April 2020 2:32 PM GMT
Migrants Defying Lockdown At Mumbais Bandra Station Given Communal Spin
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Migrants Defying Lockdown At Mumbai's Bandra Station Given Communal...

BOOM spoke to Mumbai Police who denied any communal angle to the crowd that gathered defying the lockdown

14 April 2020 8:16 PM GMT
Rumours Led To Residents Protest Against Imams Quarantine: Uttarakhand Police
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Rumours Led To Residents Protest Against Imam's Quarantine:...

BOOM spoke to local police who said that rumours were spread over WhatsApp and through word-of-mouth among the residents ...

14 April 2020 4:19 PM GMT
2015 Video From Philadelphia Peddled As Coronavirus Suicide In Italy
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2015 Video From Philadelphia Peddled As Coronavirus Suicide In Italy

BOOM reached out to the hotel in Philadelphia which confirmed that the video was from there and that it was a 2015...

10 April 2020 11:56 AM GMT
Rewa Police Action On Temple Priest For Violating Lockdown Viral With Communal Spin
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Rewa Police Action On Temple Priest For Violating Lockdown Viral With...

BOOM spoke to SP Abid Khan who has become the subject of fake communal posts.

4 April 2020 6:01 PM GMT