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By Anmol Alphonso Claims of rigging electronic voting machines (EVMs), claims of scrapping reservations, old videos and communal claims, were the dominant themes of misinformation in the second phase of polling. BOOM fact-checked around 20 pieces of misinformation from April 26, 2024 to May 5. False claims surrounding videos of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), old and cropped videos including Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Shah's video was shared claiming his party would scrap reservations, and communal allegations aimed at the Muslim community were among the debunked c...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old video showing hate speech by a Muslim cleric in Bangladesh is being peddled with a false communal spin, linking it to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The viral video is being shared with the caption which roughly translated from Hindi reads, "If congress comes to power, they will go door to door and invite Hindus to Islam." In the 26 seconds video, a man is seen making objectionable remarks against Hindus. (Original video - Congress agar aa gayi to ghar ghar jaakar Hinduon ko Islam ki dawat bhi denge.) Click here to view, and here for an archive Also Read:Old Tyre Com...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old ad for CEAT tyres has been edited to add a false anti-Modi tagline asking people to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the centre. BOOM found that the video is from 2017 and shows an advertisement by CEAT tyres; it is unrelated to the ongoing Lok Sabha polls and does not carry any anti-Modi taglines as suggested in the viral claim. In the viral video, the man refuses to pay for a shopping bag, attempting to hold all the items himself, clearly struggling. The video ends with a tagline which can be translated to English as, "Want to save ...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra talking about late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is being shared with a misleading claim that she said that voters in Amethi criticized him for not building a road in his parliamentary constituency. BOOM found that in the original speech, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was giving an example of how voters used to hold leaders accountable in the past and made a comparison to present day and alleged that leaders provoke people in the name of religion and ask for votes instead of talking on issues. The viral video was posted by the X handle P...
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By Hazel Gandhi A photo purporting to show Indian women soldiers eating together in the scorching heat in Barmer, Rajasthan is viral online as real. BOOM found that the photo has been created using generative-AI and is not real. The photo shows five soldiers eating on the roadside at a location that is seemingly an army camp. A user on Facebook shared the photo with the caption, "Indian Army women soldiers eating food on the road while on duty in 48° sun in Badmer, Rajasthan, border of India...Pakistan. You should admire not those who wear make-up and dance in short clothes. These are real her...
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By Anmol Alphonso A photo purporting to show a press release by the Congress party officially declaring the names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the party's Lok Sabha candidates for Raebareli and Amethi is fake. BOOM found that no such press release was put out by the party on April 30, 2024, declaring the candidates for these two seats. On April 30, 2024, the Congress party released a press release announcing four candidates for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. There has been speculation that Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi might be announced as the candidates from Amethi and R...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: Several social media users claimed that Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra said 'sex' was the source of her energy. Fact: 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. Tools used: BOOM noticed a watermark in the viral video that led us to the original video uploaded on YouTube. Also, we reached out to Mahua Moitra who shared a clearer version of the video without the background noise and music. The interviewer also called out the viral claim. Read the full fact-check ...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video showing a polling agent press the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) button five times for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate during a mock poll is being shared with the misleading claim that it was captured during voting in the second phase of the Lok Sabha election. BOOM found that the incident happened in Assam's Karimganj where the mock poll video went viral as actual voting. In the viral video, a man can be seen pressing the EVM button five times in a row for the BJP candidate and sitting Member of Parliament (MP) Kripanath Mallah. The video is being shared ...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video of former Congress member and now supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Acharya Pramod Krishnam, speaking about ending caste-based reservation in India at a rally is viral online as recent. BOOM found that the claims are misleading, the video of Krishnam is from September 2023 and he made these statements when he was a part of the Congress. He was expelled from Congress in February this year. In the viral video, Krishnam can be heard saying, "Politicians who accuse us of casteism are the ones who are politicians only for a few castes. They threaten us. I want ...
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By Hazel Gandhi Several old photos of prosthetic fingers from Japan are viral online with the false claim that they show "fake fingers" being used for voting fraud during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the claims are false, the photos date back to 2013 and show how former and current members of the Yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, make use of prosthetic fingers to hide their severed digits. One of the posts on X shows two photos of fake fingers with a text in Telugu that can be translated to English as, "Fake fingers are ready for elections. I think polling officers should...
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