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By Anmol Alphonso A video of a minaret being brought down during a controlled demolition at a mosque in Adana, Türkiye, is being shared online with the false claim that it shows a mosque being demolished by the government in China. In the viral video, we can see a minaret being demolished. A minaret is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to a mosque. The three seconds video is being shared on X (formerly known as Twitter) with the caption, "The Chinese government destroying another mosque. The Chinese Communist Party has been focusing on mosques as part its crackdown against the M...
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By Srijit Das A video of a specially abled man interacting with and addressing children and working professionals is viral online with the false claim that he is the founder of Chinese social media platform TikTok. BOOM found that the claims are false; the viral videos have misidentified the man who, in reality, is a Chinese motivational speaker Chen Zhou and not the founder of TikTok. The viral video carries two clips--the first shows the man interacting with the students and the second shows him addressing a crowd of adults. One of the users on X (formerly Twitter) posted the video with a ca...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video of a railway track laying machine in use for the East Coast Rail Link project in Malaysia, which is a joint venture between Malaysia and China, is being shared on social media falsely claiming it is from India showing an under-construction railway track by the Indian Railways. The video is being shared on Facebook with the caption when translated from Tamil reads, "Pace of construction of new railway line in India." Click here to view The same viral video is being shared on Facebook with other misleading captions like, "The pace of construction of new railways in Modi...
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By Sachin Baghel An old video from Thailand has recently gone viral on social media with a false claim that it shows a Uyghur Muslim being thrashed for offering namaz at a public place in China. BOOM found that the video shows an incident from Thailand from 2020 when an employee of a debt company was beaten up by his senior for allegedly mishandling the customer's money. The 21-second long video shows disturbing visuals of a man sitting on his knees and getting kicked by another man. The assaulter later, lifts the victim up from the ground and continues to attack him by kicking repeatedly on h...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video of an intense tornado likely from China is going viral online with a false claim that it is from the Biparjoy cyclone that has impacted Gujarat and parts of Pakistan. BOOM found that the video is a few weeks old and most likely was shot in China's Fuxin City, located in the Liaoning province. The IMD has sounded a red alert for Barmer and Jalore after Cyclone Biparjoy crossed the Gujarat coastline and moved towards Rajasthan. It is expected to move towards other parts of Rajasthan as well that will continue seeing heavy rainfall. However, Biparjoy's intensity has weaken...
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By Srijit Das A video of an Indian classical dance performance is circulating with a false claim that it shows two Chinese robots dancing at Shanghai's Disneyland. BOOM found that the video shows two dancers Sophia Salingaros and Isha Parupudi. The video is being shared with a caption, "*Watch this dance carefully. Dancing at Disneyland in Shanghai*. *These two are not human dancers, *But two robots made in China**. *The duration of the dance is only five minutes. But the waiting time to buy tickets to see this dance is 4 hours. Tickets to see this dance cost 499 yuan, which is equivalent to 7...
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By Archis Chowdhury The Congress party recently shared a news report by non-profit website Adani Watch to claim that Chang Chien-Ting, an associate of the Adani Group, is a Chinese national. The article, based on this claim, questions the Indian government's silence on a Chinese-owned company being involved in critical infrastructure projects in India, in the backdrop of the geopolitical rivalry between the two countries. BOOM found that these claims were erroneous; according to the the findings of the Hindenburg report, and multiple other reports by Taiwanese media, Chang has been described a...
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By Archis Chowdhury A video showing a train crossing a high-altitude bridge over a river is viral on social media with the claim that it shows a trial run on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link on the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir. BOOM found these claims to be false; we found that the video shows a train crossing the Shuibai Railway Bridge over the Beipan River in China's Guizhou Province. According to an ANI report, a small train passed through the "railway track under construction on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link on the Chenab valley in Jammu and Kashmir". This has bee...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video showing several cracks on the surface of the earth has been shared by several users as a footage from the earthquake in Turkey. BOOM found that the video is from China's Pinglu County and is unrelated to the Turkey earthquake. On February 6, 2023, Turkey and Syria were hit with an intense 7.8-magnitude earthquake, and the countries are still grappling from its devastating effects. Over 45,000 lives have been lost in this disaster and several videos have gone viral from the region. Amid this, the video showing several cracks in the earth's surface is also being shar...
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By Anmol Alphonso A computer-generated imagery (CGI) video showing a CCTV camera mounted on a large white balloon in the sky is being shared with a false claim that it is the suspected Chinese spy balloon that the United States shot down after it flew over territorial waters off the South Carolina coast. On February 4, 2023, the US shot down a Chinese "spy balloon" that had traveled over a large swath of North America. The Biden administration has alleged that the balloon was “part of a larger Chinese surveillance-balloon program,” while the Chinese government has declined the allegation and a...
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