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By Jagriti Trisha An old photo of President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being shared on social media falsely claiming that she accompanied Modi while he was filing his nomination for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. BOOM found that the viral photo is from 2022, when Modi and other senior BJP leaders accompanied Murmu for the nomination process as NDA's presidential candidate. Several posts have shared the photo targeting Modi, questioning how can Murmu being the president be present for his nomination process. The photo was shared on Facebook wi...
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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 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 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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Researchers have developed a computer game to help students better spot fake news, according to a study. Their experiment involved 516 Swedish upper secondary school students from four different institutions. The game, called Bad News, was created through a collaboration between researchers from the University of Cambridge and video game studios. In Bad News, the user plays “the role of fake news-monger” to get people accustomed to manipulation techniques used to mislead an audience. The game breaks down six practices commonly levered in misinformation: impersonation, emotion, polarisation, co...
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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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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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