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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: An image of a Vistara flight boarding pass has been shared online claiming that it shows the ticket of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi leaving the country on June 5, a day after the announcement of the 2024 Lok Sabha election results. The boarding pass shows Rahul Gandhi's name as the ticket holder and mentions a travel date of June 5, 2024, from India to Thailand's Bangkok. Fact: BOOM found that the photo is digitally altered. Tools used: BOOM first observed the picture closely and noticed a significant discrepancy in the viral boarding pass. The flight number on t...
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By Srijit Das A morphed image of a Vistara flight boarding pass has been shared online with a false claim that it shows the ticket of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi leaving the country on June 5, a day after the announcement of the 2024 Lok Sabha election results. The boarding pass shows Rahul Gandhi's name as the ticket holder and mentions a travel date of June 5, 2024, from India to Thailand's Bangkok. BOOM found that the photo is digitally altered. We also spoke to Ajay Awtaney, who confirmed that the boarding pass belonged to him and he boarded the Vistara international flight from Delhi air...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A graphic claims that Hindi news channel News24 carried predictions from different satta bazaars (illegal betting markets) showing a close knit race between the Congress-led I.N.D.I.A bloc and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA coalition, posing a challenge to the BJP's previous claims of winning over 400 seats in the election. Fact: BOOM found that the channel did not carry any such report. News24 executive editor Manak Gupta also took to X to clarify that the graphic is fake. Tools used: We ran a keyword search and checked News24's social media profiles but wer...
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Samuel Alito has refused to recuse himself from upcoming cases relating to the January 6 Capitol riot. The Supreme Court associate justice told Congress earlier this week that Democrats' insistence that he does so was unreasonable, saying, "I am therefore duty bound to reject your recusal request." Why have so many Democratic politicians and media figures decided that Alito should sit out from January 6 cases? They believe that he has proven himself to be sympathetic to former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election—and they cite as evidence two flags that...
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Washington (AFP) - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and nearly two dozen Democrats called on the Justice Department Thursday to investigate the oil and gas industry over allegations of price-fixing. The senators pointed to an investigation by US antitrust authorities into a high-profile merger that concluded there was evidence of anticompetitive practice by oil executives to boost fuel costs for Americans. "These reports are alarming and lend credence to the fear that corporate avarice is keeping prices artificially high," Democrats wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. Sc...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video purporting to show Rahul Gandhi saying the Congress party wants to destroy India's democracy and the Constitution while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would protect the same, is viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the video has been doctored by splicing and stitching together different parts of the audio. The original video shows Gandhi attacking the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tools used: We found that the original video on Rahul Gandhi's official X handle and it was posted on April 25, 2024, with the caption, "In this election to protect the...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video of Home Minister Amit Shah purportedly calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi's guarantees meaningless and saying that he forgets about them once the elections are over is viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the claims are false and the original video has been cropped to make the false claim. In the longer version, Shah can be seen referring to the Congress while making the statement. Tools used: We ran a reverse image search of some key frames from the viral video on Google and found the original interview shared by ANI on May 15, 2024. We watched the enti...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video purporting to show Rahul Gandhi saying the Congress party wants to destroy India's democracy and the Constitution while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would protect the same, is fake and has been created by altering the audio of the viral clip. BOOM found that the video has been doctored by splicing and stitching together different parts of the audio. The original video shows Gandhi attacking the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the viral video, Gandhi appears to be saying, "Namaskar, I'm Rahul Gandhi, this election is about saving democracy and the Constitu...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A viral video is being circulated claiming that it's a new ad by the Congress party on the Mahalaxmi Scheme. Context: The Congress in its 2024 Lok Sabha manifesto has promised to give ₹ 1 lakh per year to poor households under the Mahalakshmi Scheme guarantee. Under this scheme which it has promised to launch, the money would be directly transferred to the bank account of the oldest woman of the household. Fact: BOOM found that the viral video is from a 2022 ad campaign #SheCanCarryBoth by Prega News, a pregnancy test kit brand, which was released on the occasion...
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By Rohit Kumar A video of Home Minister Amit Shah purportedly calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi's guarantees meaningless and saying that he forgets about them once the elections are over is viral online. BOOM found that the claims are false and the original video has been cropped to make the false claim. In the longer version, Shah can be seen referring to the Congress while making the statement. In the viral video, Shah can be heard saying in Hindi, "I am telling you these guarantees have no meaning, they talk until the elections and then forget about it." A user on X shared the video with...
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