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Fact Checking Zee News' Fact Check Accusing TMC MP Mahua Moitra Of Plagiarism

BOOM found that Moitra gave due credits for the ideas incorporated in her speech from a poster at the US Holocaust...

3 July 2019 1:45 PM GMT

Fake News

Media Outlets Falsely Claim Darul Uloom Issued A Fatwa Against MP Nusrat Jahan

BOOM found that media outlets added false narratives to a quote by a Mufti, where he only condemned Nusrat Jahan...

2 July 2019 5:34 PM GMT

Fact File

British Herald, Who? How Indian Media Fell For An Unknown Website's Poll Praising PM Modi

After talking to British Herald officials, BOOM found that the poll has several discrepancies and ambiguities that were...

25 Jun 2019 2:16 PM GMT

FactCheck

Mitchell Johnson Spars With Times Of India, Denies Giving Interview On Test Series

'Casual chat' or on-record interview? Mitchell Johnson denies giving an interview to TOI while the publication calls the...

24 Dec 2018 1:44 PM GMT

Media

'Stung Media Houses Tried To Intimidate Us': Cobrapost's Aniruddha Bahal

Bahal spoke to BOOM's Founding Editor Govindraj Ethiraj and explained why sting journalism is necessary and in public...

7 Jun 2018 12:40 PM GMT

Media

Peddling Hindutva For Cash? Cobrapost Stings Top Media Houses, Paytm

Here is a silver lining - Representatives of two of the newspapers that were stung, Bartaman and Dainik Sambad refused...

26 May 2018 12:57 PM GMT

Fake News

April Fools' Day Special: When Newsrooms Couldn't Tell Fact From Fiction

Barely four months into 2018 and marquee names of Indian media have already fallen for misinformation.

1 April 2018 5:03 AM GMT

FactCheck

Karnataka Poll Dates Fiasco: Times Now Targets BJP's Amit Malviya Ignoring Own Error

Amit Malviya and Times Now spar with each other over the timing shown on the tweet. Here is why Times Now needs a lesson...

27 March 2018 12:20 PM GMT

Media

Peddling Hindutva For Money?: Cobrapost Stings Media Houses In Operation 136

Cobrapost alleges it stung executives of 36 media houses who agreed to peddle Hindutva and target specific politicians...

27 March 2018 5:00 AM GMT

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We Need To Get Better At Covering Studies About Fake News

Coverage of a seminal and important study comes short if it doesn’t clarify the nature of the sample of a study — and...

12 March 2018 2:59 PM GMT

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Journos' Copycat Tweets Thanking Smriti Irani: PR Stunt Or Lapse Of Judgment?

Identical tweets thanking the I&B Minister creates a moral dilemma over a worthy cause, puts spotlight on age old issue...

9 March 2018 3:55 PM GMT

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'Maut Ka Bathtub': TV Channels' Insensitive And Deplorable Coverage Of Sridevi's Death

Indian media turns coverage of Sridevi's death into a grotesque media spectacle.

27 Feb 2018 11:17 AM GMT