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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of Home Minister Amit Shah talking about ending Muslim reservation in Telangana has been doctored and shared with the false claim that it shows him promising to end reservation of the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) community if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is voted back to power. In the viral video Shah can be heard saying, "If the Bharatiya Janata Party forms the government, we will end the unconstitutional reservation for SC, ST and OBC." The video was posted by Jharkhand Congress with the caption that rough...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video showing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker from Chennai being thrashed is viral online as recent and is being falsely connected to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the video dates back to July 2023 and shows the District Secretary of BJP's IT and Social Media Cell in Chennai being beaten up by members of his own party. The video shows a CCTV footage where a man in a green shirt is being beaten up by a group of people. They pin him against the wall and tear his shirt after which a police officer arrives and pacifies the situation. A user on X shar...
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By Shefali Srivastava An old video purportedly showing Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami distributing cash in exchange for votes is viral online as recent. BOOM found that the video dates back to 2022 and was taken during the Uttarakhand assembly elections when the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused the Bharatiya Janata Party and Dhami of buying votes. The viral video is divided in two parts, one shows an envelope with the name of Shiv Arora, that has Rs 1000 in it. The second part shows CM Dhami being confronted by a group of people for distributing cash in exchange for votes. Congres...
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By Anmol Alphonso Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently, in a campaign speech, misquoted former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's comments from a December 2006 speech, misleadingly claiming that the Congress leader said Muslims have the first right to India's resources. Modi made the claim in his speech, where he also criticised the Congress party's manifesto and made remarks with communal undertones during a public rally in Rajasthan. Modi on April 22, 2024, at a public rally in Banswara, Rajasthan, also went on to link Singh's old remarks to the Congress 2024 Lok Sabha manifesto and falsely cl...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video showing two men removing slips from VVPAT machines in a strong room, is being shared online with a false claim that it shows Bharatiya Janata Party members engaging in EVM (electronic voting machine) fraud during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the video dates back to December 2022 and was taken during the Gujarat Assembly Elections. Two election officials at the time clarified that the video shows no wrongdoing, rather a procedure laid down by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The video shows a man opening a sealed box and removing the slips...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video of a man pelting a stone at a poster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being shared online falsely linking it to the recently concluded first phase of voting for the Lok Sabha election. BOOM found that the incident in the viral video dates back to December 2023 and had taken place in Nagpur, Maharashtra In the 17-second video, a man is repeatedly pelting a stone at PM Modi's poster at a bus stop while onlookers record videos of him. Rajeev Reddy, South India in-charge of communications at the All Indian Congress Committee (AICC), shared the video with the caption,...
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By Hazel Gandhi Social media posts claiming Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra said 'sex' was the source of her energy, are false and misleading. BOOM found that a careful hearing of the full video shows that Moitra spoke about how 'eggs' were the source of her energy, not sex. The 12-second viral clip shows a reporter asking Mahua, "What's your source of energy", to which Moitra says "Eggs, Eggs." The reporter laughs at this, to which Moitra says, "It's true." This clip has been shared with the false claim that Moitra said 'sex' instead of 'eggs'. A caption on X reads, "Dear Bengali Vot...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video of a man holding his deceased child in his arms and cursing Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the lack of facilities in his village which caused the death of his daughter, is viral online as recent. BOOM found that the claims are misleading, the incident took place in September 2018 and is being falsely shared as recent. The video shows the man holding his daughter while explaining how she died of a snakebite. He is heard cursing the PM for the lack of facilities available near his village, which he claims is the cause of his daughter's death. A user on X shared the vide...
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By Anmol Alphonso A set of photos claiming to show an opinion poll survey conducted by the polling agency Axis My India on the Lok Sabha 2024 elections are fake, and have not been released by the agency. The photos falsely claim to show leaked documents of Axis My India projecting that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be losing seats they had previously held to the I.N.D.I.A alliance and would fall short of the majority mark of 272 seats in parliament. BOOM spoke to Axis My India who denied the viral claim and stated that they haven't released any opinion poll survey as being claimed. Th...
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