Islamophobia
Earlier this month, a plot between AfD party officials and neo-Nazis to deport millions of ethnic minorities from Germany was uncovered. But this conspiracy is part of a sinister undercurrent sweeping Europe and the wider Western world - one that goes hand-in-hand with a relentless surge in Islamophobia. Since the atrocities of 7 October and the ongoing onslaught against the people of Gaza, Islamophobia in the UK has surged 600%. Yet the British government has responded by inflaming rhetoric rather than promoting messages of unity. Recently, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak used an Islamophobic trop...
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By Nidhi Jacob BOOM's analysis of all debunked fact-checks in 2023 revealed that Muslims continued to be the primary target of mis/disinformation, mirroring the trend from the previous year. Muslims have consistently emerged as the primary targets of fake news since 2021, per our analysis of the reports from the past two years. Between January 2 and December 31, 2023, BOOM published 1,190 fact-checks, in English, Hindi and Bangla (this figure excludes the translated stories in Hindi and Bangla from English). Of these, 15.4% or 183 fact-checks were claims targeting the Muslim community. Among c...
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By Archis Chowdhury A five-year-old video of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni saying Islam is not compatible with European culture, has been widely misreported by multiple Indian media outlets as a recent comment. Meloni was recently accompanied by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at an event in Rome, organised by her far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (Fdi). Her five-year-old comment on Islam, made before she became prime minister, has been misleadingly reported as a statement made after this event by many news articles shared online. BOOM was unable to find any recent comment on Islam ...
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By Archis Chowdhury A video purportedly showing three women fighting back against a group of men, after being assaulted by them, is being shared with Islamophobic captions claiming that the video shows three girls in a Paris metro underpass fighting back against a group of Muslim immigrants who tried to molest them. BOOM found these claims to be false; our fact-check reveals that the video shows a fight that was staged and shot by Campus Univers Cascades (CUC) - a stunt team based in France. Also Read:Video Of Injured Man Reassuring His Mother Peddled As Gazan Faking Injuries Several users on ...
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By Samriddhi Sakunia Three months after a 14-year-old posted an apology for a social media post he never posted, life has come to a standstill for his family. On August 15, Maaz (name changed) saw an Instagram post on Shivaji Maharaj from his account. The police found out that his account was hacked. Dilshad Sheikh, the mother of the 14-year-old told Decode that while she thought that things would settle down after the police confirmed that her son’s account was hacked, it hasn’t. Dilashd’s family was evicted out of the house in Satara in Maharashtra. “It was because of the external pressure t...
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By Archis Chowdhury A video showing a few men rescuing a girl who is tied and kept immersed in water is viral with the claim that it shows a Muslim girl forcibly immersed in water by her in-laws, to make her conceive a child on the advise of a Muslim seer. BOOM found this claim to be false; our fact-check reveals that this video is an enactment, made by a content creator called Ankur Jatuskaran, and does not show a real-life scenario. Also Read:Video Of Hindu Sena Member Peddled As Manipur Governor At RSS Backed Event The video shows two men arriving at a small pond where a girl is seen tied u...
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By Archis Chowdhury A video, showing people misbehaving with the staff of a restaurant, is being shared with the claim that it shows the owner of a restaurant in Pinjore, Panchkula, Haryana, being confronted for making biryani with sewage water. BOOM found this claim to be false; Panchkula police stated that viral video shows people associated with the right-wing group Bajrang Dal misbehaving with the staff of the biryani restaurant, after neighbouring shops complained about the restaurant draining dirty water on the streets. The viral video, of 2:06 in length, shows people abusing the staff i...
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By Archis Chowdhury A video of a burst LPG cylinder found under a train is going viral on social media with the claim that “a Muslim man threw an Indane cylinder filled with gas on the tracks in Haldwani”. BOOM found this claim to be false; according to our investigation, the viral video - shot on July 5 2022 in Haldwani - does not show a Muslim man throwing the cylinder on the track. Haldwani Railway Police had registered a complaint against a person named Gangaram for throwing a cylinder on the track. The 2.11 minute-long video shows a person taking out a burst LPG cylinder from under a trai...
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By Archis Chowdhury A blue tick next to your Twitter account was once considered a prized asset - a symbol of verification and authenticity - given to only those who reached a certain position of prominence. Now, conspiracy theorists, trolls, misogynists, hate-mongers, and other unverified troublemakers are also sporting a blue tick - all for $8. Following the highly publicised takeover of the microblogging platform by Elon Musk, one of the most contentious changes proposed by the Tesla CEO was the removal of the legacy verification system, which was aimed at providing a tag of legitimacy to T...
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By Debraj Sarkar The earthquake in Turkiye and Syria was the most prominent topic of false claims in the month of February, accounting for 17.5 per cent of all our fact-checks. Following this was Islamophobia - a topic of recurring prominence - featuring in 16.5 per cent of our fact-checks. BOOM did 97 fact-checks this month, in English, Hindi, and Bangla, each of them debunking a unique false or misleading claim. Our analysis revealed that the majority of claims are Political in nature, accounting for 23 per cent of the data set, followed by Alarmist and Islamophobia related claims, comprisin...
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