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Images From Adult Comedy Falsely Linked To Yogi Adityanath

BOOM found that the screengrabs are from a web drama that is available on YouTube since 2017.

28 Oct 2020 2:30 PM GMT

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2012 Embassy Attacks In Sudan Falsely Shared As Attack On French...

BOOM found that the viral clip is from September 2012 when protests broke out in Khartoum, Sudan outside the embassies...

28 Oct 2020 12:52 PM GMT

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Police Brutality During Idol Immersion In Munger Shared As West Bengal

The viral video clip, shot atop a building is from Munger, Bihar, where police reportedly lathi-charged on a group of...

28 Oct 2020 10:44 AM GMT

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2017 Video Of Emmanuel Macron Getting Egged Revived With False Claim

BOOM found that the incident is from March 2017 when then presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was attacked with an...

27 Oct 2020 9:56 AM GMT

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Delhi Youth Congress Peddles Old Assault Video From Kuala Lumpur As...

BOOM debunked the same video in 2019. The video shows a violent robbery inside an MRT lift in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

27 Oct 2020 8:30 AM GMT

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No, This Is Not Annies Kanmani Joy - Kodagu's COVID-19 Warrior

The woman in the video is an associate at an e-commerce firm in Hyderabad and not a district collector from Coorg

27 Oct 2020 6:05 AM GMT

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2017 Protest Clip Revived After French Teacher's Beheading In Paris

The incident is from Paris when right-wing protestors marched towards Muslim worshippers who were praying outside in...

26 Oct 2020 10:33 AM GMT

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Cropped Screenshot Of The Wire Article On Durga Puja Is Misleading

The viral screenshot has been cropped from a longer story by the Wire which quotes Smriti Irani reading about an event...

26 Oct 2020 6:59 AM GMT

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Set Of Old Images Revived With 'Civil War In Karachi' Claims

BOOM found that old pictures from Pakistan and Syria have been used to build a fake narrative of civil war in Karachi.

25 Oct 2020 1:28 PM GMT

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#UninstallMyntra Trends Over Old Graphic Not Made By Company

BOOM found that the graphic was made by ScrollDroll, a content creating website in 2016 and was removed soon after.

25 Oct 2020 10:48 AM GMT

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Bihar Polls: Old Photo Falsely Shared As Crowd At Yogi Adityanath's...

BOOM found that the viral photo is from February 2014 taken at a rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

23 Oct 2020 8:03 AM GMT

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Video Of Russian Artillery Show Shared As Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict

BOOM found that the video is from 2019 of an artillery show held by Russian defence forces.

22 Oct 2020 10:44 AM GMT