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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi critising the Uttar Pradesh police for alleged cases of police atrocities has been edited and is being shared on social media with the misleading claim that he is making a communal speech. The video is being shared claiming that he is threatening Hindus and asking who would protect them after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are not in power. BOOM found that the original video is from a 2021 speech of Owaisi, in which he directs a rhetorical question to the...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader being offered a garland of shoes by an elderly man during a campaign in Madhya Pradesh is being shared online falsely linking it to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the video dates back to January 2018 and the incident took place during the Dhamnod civic elections in Madhya Pradesh. In the 24-second video, a candidate is seen campaigning on the streets when an elderly man approaches him and puts a garland of shoes around his neck. The video is being shared on X with the caption, "#BreakingNews People gave spe...
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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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By Hazel Gandhi An old newspaper clipping carrying a statement by HDFC's former chairman, Deepak Parekh, on the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) election manifesto is being shared online as recent. BOOM found that the newspaper clipping circulated during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and is unrelated to the BJP's recent election manifesto. The BJP released its election manifesto or 'Sankalp Patra' on April 14, 2024 at the party headquarters in New Delhi. Key features and objectives of the manifesto include a 'one nation, one election' initiative, implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video of a drone footage of building rooftops shot by Ranchi Police is being shared on social media with a false and communal claim that the footage showed Muslim houses kept stones on rooftops to attack Ram Navami processions in Ranchi on the day of the festival. BOOM spoke to Ranchi Police who denied the viral claim stating that there is no communal angle to the incident. The police further added that bricks on rooftops were for construction related activity and the building owners who were sent notices comprised of both Hindus and Muslims. Ram Navami falls on April 17, 2...
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By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court observed that deepfake videos can cause irreparable harm to one’s personality while granting interim relief to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s national spokesperson and senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia by directing social media platforms ‘X’ and YouTube to take down posts, and make videos private that alleged he was “beaten up” by lawyers in a Noida court. The high court observed Bhatia would face “irreparable loss and injury” if the deepfake videos and tweets were allowed to remain in the public domain. The high court’s concern on Bhatia’s defamation plea is timely...
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Nach Ansicht von Bundesverteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius muss Deutschland widerstandsfähiger gegen Desinformation aus Russland werden. «Wir dürfen Putin auch in diesem Bereich nicht auf den Leim gehen, sondern wir müssen vorbereitet sein», sagte der SPD-Politiker im rheinland-pfälzischen Mayen. Desinformationskampagnen müssten frühzeitig erkannt und öffentlich entlarvt werden. «Kurz: Wir müssen resilient werden, gesamtstaatlich und gesamtgesellschaftlich.» Einflussnahme durch RusslandRussland versuche, die westlichen Staaten und Gesellschaften zu spalten. «In Deutschland sollen die politis...
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