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.

Dated Video From Sri Lanka Falsely Shared As Muslim Women Harassed In India
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Dated Video From Sri Lanka Falsely Shared As Muslim Women Harassed In...

The video dates back to February 2019 and shows an incident of ragging at a university in Sri Lanka.

11 March 2020 8:37 AM GMT
No, Rana Kapoor Is Not P Chidambaram
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No, Rana Kapoor Is Not P Chidambaram's Son-In-Law

Social media is abuzz with false posts claiming Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor is related to former Finance Minister P...

9 March 2020 10:49 AM GMT
Madhya Pradesh Murder Victim Falsely Linked To AAP
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Madhya Pradesh Murder Victim Falsely Linked To AAP's Tahir Hussain

The image is originally of a girl whose charred body was recovered from a village in Madhya Pradesh, on February 20.

2 March 2020 11:26 AM GMT
Photo Shows JNU
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Photo Shows JNU's Aishe Ghosh Faked An Injury? False Claim Viral

BOOM found that other images clearly show the scar on Aishe Ghosh's forehead.

24 Feb 2020 2:24 PM GMT
Media Misquotes RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat On Nationalism
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Media Misquotes RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat On Nationalism

A statement likening nationalism to Nazism has been incorrectly attributed to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

21 Feb 2020 10:23 AM GMT
Ghost MLA Anil Upadhyay Is Back, This Time Speaking In Favour Of CAA
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Ghost MLA Anil Upadhyay Is Back, This Time Speaking In Favour Of CAA

A video of a man speaking in support of Citizenship (Amendment) Act has been falsely attributed to a MLA Anil Upadhyay,...

14 Feb 2020 3:28 PM GMT
Delhi Elections Over But Protests At Shaheen Bagh Continue
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Delhi Elections Over But Protests At Shaheen Bagh Continue

BOOM's ground report from Shaheen Bagh shows that claims that protesters vacated the venue after the Aam Aadmi Party's...

14 Feb 2020 1:23 PM GMT
Amanatullah Khan fake tweet
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Morphed Screenshot Of AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan's Tweet Goes Viral

BOOM found out that the original tweet of the Okhla MLA has been photoshopped and doctored with text that gives it a...

13 Feb 2020 9:37 AM GMT
No, Delhiites Did Not Ransack Zee News
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No, Delhiites Did Not Ransack Zee News' Office Outraged By Sudhir...

BOOM found that both images are old and there was no attack on Zee News' office recently.

11 Feb 2020 12:13 PM GMT
Video Of Distraught Woman Narrating Her Ordeal To Rahul Gandhi Goes Viral With False Claim
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Video Of Distraught Woman Narrating Her Ordeal To Rahul Gandhi Goes...

Viral Facebook posts that the woman in the video has told Rahul Gandhi that everything was fine in Jammu and Kashmir

29 Aug 2019 11:22 AM GMT
Old India Today Video Falsely Shared As Inciting Anti-Modi Slogans In Kashmir
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Old India Today Video Falsely Shared As Inciting Anti-Modi Slogans In...

BOOM found that the original video is from January this year and that the reporter was not orchestrating a protest...

28 Aug 2019 7:31 AM GMT
2017 Student Protest In Kashmir Falsely Shared As Recent
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2017 Student Protest In Kashmir Falsely Shared As Recent

Viral video links the old protest incidents with the situations in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370

27 Aug 2019 10:52 AM GMT