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By Srijanee Chakraborty An image generated through artificial intelligence is circulating on social media, specially on the Threads platform, with false claims that it shows a visual of the solar eclipse from Toronto, Canada. BOOM found that the viral image is actually artificially rendered by a digital content creator who had posted the image on April 1, 2024 as an April Fools prank, days before the total solar eclipse actually took place on April 8. We also ran the image through Itisaar.ai, a tool developed by the Image Analysis and Biometric Lab (IAB) at the Indian Institute of Technology (...
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By Hazel Gandhi A digitally altered screenshot of a report by Canada-based news outlet Toronto Sun alleging how human faeces were found near Lord Hanuman's statue in Brampton is viral online. BOOM found that the report's headline had been digitally altered to make the false claim and the original report did not carry any news about human faeces being found near the deity's statue. Indian-Canadian diplomatic relations soured after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of being involved in the killing of pro-Khalistani Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an allegation fervently...
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By Nidhi Jacob Of all the fact-checks published by BOOM in September, the G20 Summit 2023, the India-Canada diplomatic standoff and the Morocco earthquake were the most popular topics that generated false and misleading claims, accounting for 11%, 5.3% and 4.3%, respectively. Of the 93 fact-checks that were published in September in English, Hindi and Bangla, 31.18% of the claims were Political in nature. This was followed by Communal (13%) and Alarmist (13%) claims. Claims that were political (31.18%) in nature mostly included topics like the 2023 G20 Summit and the Indo-Canadian diplomatic r...
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By Hazel Gandhi A notice purportedly issued by the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab condemning pro-Khalistan outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), is fake. BOOM spoke to an official of the temple's managing committee who confirmed that the notice is fake and has not been issued by them. The notice, purportedly issued by Sri Harmandir Sahib or the Golden Temple, condemns BKI's terrorism and the way it is "using Sikh religion to defame India." It asks the Indian Sikh community to follow the democratic path to achieve political aspirations and stand by India. It also calls for gurudwaras wor...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of Canadian opposition leader Andrew Scheer slamming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in parliament and accusing the latter of damaging Indo-Canadian ties, is being falsely shared as recent. Indian news outlets such as Republic TV and Punjab Kesari also misreported the video that is from March 2018 as recent. Diplomatic ties between India and Canada are at an all-time low after Trudeau alleged the involvement of Indian government agents in the killing of pro-Khalistan leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia earlier this year. This was followed by Ca...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old video from October 2022 of Cameron MacKay, High Commissioner for Canada in India visiting the Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in Delhi is being shared with the false claim that he visited the Golden Temple in Punjab after the recent diplomatic row with India. Diplomatic tensions escalated between the India and Canada after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on September 19, 2023, alleged a “potential link” being investigated between Indian government agents and the killing of pro-Khalistan leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June in British Columbia, Canada. This was followed by ...
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By Hera Rizwan A contentious claim from Canada, suggesting possible involvement of the Indian government in the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, has ignited a major diplomatic dispute, leading to a sharp decline in relations between the two nations. The sequence of events began on Monday when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asserted that country’s intelligence agencies were investigating “credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar." Responding to this, Indi...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video of a man speaking about banning the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Canada amidst diplomatic tensions with India is viral online with a false claim that the Canadian government is set to ban the Hindu organisation. BOOM found that the man speaking in the video is the head of an independent NGO, not a Canadian government official. In the video, the man is heard making 4 demands: recalling Canada's ambassador to India, expelling the Indian ambassador to Canada, freezing trade negotiations between the two countries, and banning the RSS. A diplomatic standoff ensued be...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video of a man speaking about banning the Rashtriya Sawayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Canada amidst diplomatic tensions with India is viral online with a false claim that the Canadian government is set to ban the Hindu organisation. BOOM found that the man speaking in the video is the head of an independent NGO, not a Canadian government official. In the video, the man is heard making 4 demands: recalling Canada's ambassador to India, expelling the Indian ambassador to Canada, freezing trade negotiations between the two countries, and banning the RSS. A diplomatic standoff ensued b...
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By The Conversation Stuti Bhatnagar, Australian National UniversityThe diplomatic fallout continues to worsen over Monday’s shocking accusation by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that India was behind the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Sikh leader and Canadian citizen, outside a Sikh temple in Canada earlier this year. Trudeau said Tuesday after the Canadian government expelled a senior member of India’s foreign intelligence agency: India – and the government of India – needs to take this matter with the utmost seriousness. India strongly rejected the allegations and...
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