Sumit Usha

Sumit Usha

Sumit is a fact checker and the News Editor of Boom's Hindi wing. In the six years of his journalistic career, he has worked with the New Indian Express, Times of India and Deccan Chronicle. The dynamic nature of digital media finally made him take the leap from print to online, and don the hat of a digital detective.

Old Videos Shared As Pakistanis Reacting To The India Vs Pak Cricket World Cup Match
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Old Videos Shared As Pakistanis Reacting To The India Vs Pak Cricket...

With India defeating Pakistan in the cricket match played on June 16, social media has been flooded with unrelated...

18 Jun 2019 5:11 PM GMT
Video Of Punjab Congress Councillors Brothers Beating A Woman Falsely Linked To BJP
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Video Of Punjab Congress Councillor's Brothers Beating A Woman Falsely ...

While two of the main accused in the brutal attack on a woman are brothers of a Congress councillor, viral post tries...

17 Jun 2019 12:21 PM GMT
Old Dog Attack Video From Morocco Passed Off As Kashmir
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Old Dog Attack Video From Morocco Passed Off As Kashmir

Viral post claims that an army dog attacked and mauled stone pelters in Kashmir. The original video is from Morocco and...

5 Jun 2019 1:47 PM GMT
Old Video Clip Of Mamata Banerjees Nephew Being Slapped On Stage Revived
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Old Video Clip Of Mamata Banerjee's Nephew Being Slapped On Stage...

The incident is from 2015 when an engineering student had slapped Abhishek Banerjee while he was speaking at a rally in...

4 Jun 2019 1:43 PM GMT
Did The Wife Of Abu Dhabis Crown Prince Carry The Ramayana? A FactCheck
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Did The Wife Of Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Carry The Ramayana? A...

Construction of the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi is still underway.

3 Jun 2019 9:59 AM GMT
Election Done, Its Clean-up Time For Anti-Right Facebook Pages With Millions Of Followers
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Election Done, It's Clean-up Time For Anti-Right Facebook Pages With...

Facebook pages Viral In India, I Support Ravish Kumar and Prasoon Vajpaaye Fans , all part of the million-followers...

31 May 2019 12:49 PM GMT
Viral Graphic Claiming Country-Wide Ban On Alcohol Is Fake
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Viral Graphic Claiming Country-Wide Ban On Alcohol Is Fake

A viral post claiming alcohol will be banned completely all over India in morphed and fake

29 May 2019 2:04 PM GMT
Journalist Arfa Khanums Tweet Shared With False Narrative Calling Her A Terrorist Sympathiser
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Journalist Arfa Khanum's Tweet Shared With False Narrative Calling Her ...

A tweet with the Arabic name for prophet Moses is falsely linked to slain Hizbul terrorist Zakir Musa.

29 May 2019 12:04 PM GMT
Two Year Old Image Of Slain Hizbul Terrorist Revived
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Two Year Old Image Of Slain Hizbul Terrorist Revived

Bhat, commander of Hizbul Mujahideen in Kashmir, was killed in an encounter with the armed forces on May 27, 2017

27 May 2019 6:21 PM GMT
Did Multiple BJP Candidates Get Identical Votes of 2,11,820?
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Did Multiple BJP Candidates Get Identical Votes of 2,11,820?

Election Commission's website confirms that the number of votes shown on the viral post is completely different from...

25 May 2019 4:52 PM GMT
Gau Rakshaks In MP Attack 3 For Allegedly Carrying Beef, Force Them To Say Jai Shri Ram
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Gau Rakshaks In MP Attack 3 For Allegedly Carrying Beef, Force Them To ...

Madhya Pradesh police told BOOM that the trio - two Muslims and a Hindu - were allegedly carrying beef. The victims and...

25 May 2019 8:06 AM GMT
Did A Gujarati Man In Canada Shower Cash In The Street After BJP Won?
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Did A Gujarati Man In Canada Shower Cash In The Street After BJP Won?

The viral post falsely claims that a Gujarati man showered dollars on people on a street in Canada. The video is that of ...

24 May 2019 12:41 PM GMT