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2016 Video Of Birds Swarming Near A Texas Supermarket Shared As Saudi...

The video is from a supermarket in Carrollton, United States, where a swarm of birds had descended on a car park area in ...

28 May 2020 5:36 PM GMT

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No Locust Swarms In Mumbai, BMC Refutes Viral Social Media Claims

BOOM spoke to Rajan Naringrekar, insecticide officer of the BMC who confirmed that there had been no reports of a locust ...

28 May 2020 4:33 PM GMT

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No, This Is Not An Image Of The Shivling Found At Ayodhya

BOOM found that the viral image is nearly four years old and was shot during the renovation of a temple at Farrukhabad,...

28 May 2020 10:59 AM GMT

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Can A Bottle Of Hand Sanitizer Catch Fire In A Hot Vehicle?

According to experts, alcohol-based sanitizers are flammable, but it is “highly unlikely” for them to spontaneously...

28 May 2020 6:20 AM GMT

Fast Check

2017 Image Of Family Suicide Shared With Lockdown Spin

BOOM spoke to one of the forensic doctors of AIIMS, Jodhpur, who clicked the photograph for forensic purposes at the...

27 May 2020 12:06 PM GMT

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2017 Image From Rajasthan Peddled As Hindu Family Killed In Pakistan

BOOM reached out to the forensic doctor present at the crime scene of the incident who confirmed that the family...

27 May 2020 7:32 AM GMT

Fast Check

Same Elderly Woman In All Congress Photo-Ops? A FactCheck

BOOM has debunked the same images on different occasions to show that the women in these photographs are not the same...

27 May 2020 6:59 AM GMT

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Video Of Uddhav Thackeray Asking Christians To Pray To Jesus Is

BOOM found that Thackeray asked people of different faiths and not just Christians, to pray that the COVID-19 crisis...

26 May 2020 4:58 PM GMT

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'TIME...to go' Cover Featuring Donald Trump Is Fake

BOOM found that the viral image is fake and was not created by the magazine. TIME's upcoming issue is about the Class of ...

26 May 2020 12:37 PM GMT

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No, Rahul Gandhi Did Not Tweet An Odd-Even Plan To Reopen Schools

BOOM found that Gandhi did not tweet any such proposal for reopening schools on an odd-even basis.

26 May 2020 10:25 AM GMT

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Video Of Minor Boy Injured In Anti-CAA Protests In UP's Bijnor Revived

BOOM found out that the video dates back to December 20, 2019 after anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests turned ...

26 May 2020 4:46 AM GMT

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Video Of Child Molester Publicly Shamed In Pakistan Viral In India

BOOM found that the video shows an incident that took place in Lahore recently, an FIR has been filed against the...

25 May 2020 12:50 PM GMT