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By Archis Chowdhury In March, just the month before the official commencement of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Facebook saw a massive surrogate ad campaign with over ₹3.7 crore being spent on ads on obscure pages that targeted the opponents of the ruling-Bharatiya Janata Party. BOOM also found the official page of MyGovIndia - a digital platform under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology - sponsoring ads to the tune of over ₹1.4 crore to promote the recently held National Creators Award, where the award winners were exclusively pro-BJP influencers. Overall, political advertis...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar An old photo from 2019 of a Left Front rally held in Kolkata, West Bengal is being shared with the false claim that it shows the crowd that gathered for the INDIA alliance rally held in Delhi on Sunday. The INDIA alliance held a massive rally on March 31, 2024 at Delhi's Ramlila grounds with opposition leaders including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, party leader Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in attendance. Several others like Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, Jharkhand CM Champai Soren and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann were also present and gave speeches em...
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By Archis Chowdhury An interview footage of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has been cropped from a recent interview, and shared out of context by Congress' official X handle, to purportedly show him calling out the government led by his own party. BOOM found that the video has been shared out of context, and that in the original interview to The Lallantop, Gadkari talks about the situation since independence, and then goes on to discuss the work done by the Bharatiya Janata Party to improve it. The latter part of his statement was cropped out by Congress' post, thus taking Gadkari's statement ou...
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By Hazel Gandhi An altered video purporting to show Rahul Gandhi addressing a rally and making a simple mathematic miscalculation by saying 50+15=73 is viral online. BOOM found that the video has been clipped to make the false claim, the original video shows Gandhi saying 50+15+8=73. Rahul Gandhi is currently spearheading the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, the second leg of his original Bharat Jodo Yatra, where he is travelling from Manipur to Mumbai, covering 14 states across a distance of a6,200 kilometers. The viral video shows Gandhi saying, "How much is it? 50+15. It's 73." The video was shared ...
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By Archis Chowdhury "During the Rajasthan Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to face opposition from the people, and he was not even allowed to deliver his speech. Same was the situation with Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani." The above claims are entirely false, but were presented as facts on a Facebook page named Nation TV. With more than 15000 followers and nearly 2000 likes, this page has been rampantly sharing videos with false or misleading claims, in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party, and in support of Congress. Registered as a 'News and M...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old clip of Rahul Gandhi is viral online with the claim that he made a bizarre speech about his father's death and the Dalit community. BOOM found that the speech has been clipped and shared out of context; the full video shows Gandhi speaking about Dalit atrocities. In the 3-minute clip, Gandhi is narrating the story of his conversation with a man and saying, "My father was killed, and I did not do it (kill for revenge). I harbour no hatred for my father's killers in my heart. But when I was in the hospital, I thought if this were to happen to me, I would have killed. So I ...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old clipped video of Rahul Gandhi is viral with the false claim that he credited Islam alone as an inspiration for Mahatma Gandhi's non violence stance. BOOM found that an extended version of the clip shows Rahul Gandhi mentioning other religions and not saying that Islam alone inspired Mahatma Gandhi inspiration. The clip shows Rahul Gandhi addressing a crowd and saying, "Mahatma Gandhi picked up the idea of non violence from our great religions, our great teachers. He picked it up from ancient Indian philosophy-- from Islam." The 24-second clip is viral with the caption, "...
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By Archis Chowdhury The Congress party recently shared a news report by non-profit website Adani Watch to claim that Chang Chien-Ting, an associate of the Adani Group, is a Chinese national. The article, based on this claim, questions the Indian government's silence on a Chinese-owned company being involved in critical infrastructure projects in India, in the backdrop of the geopolitical rivalry between the two countries. BOOM found that these claims were erroneous; according to the the findings of the Hindenburg report, and multiple other reports by Taiwanese media, Chang has been described a...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar A cropped photo of the late Indira Gandhi wearing a saree with the pallu covering her head and sporting a traditional collared coat is being shared with a false claim that it shows her wearing a burqa and covering her head with a hijab. The photo shows late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi standing with Sonia Gandhi and a young Rahul Gandhi in the latter's arms. It is being shared with text that reads, "Indira Gandhi in burkha and Hijab and Rahul Gandhi wearing a cap...they made fools of entire Hindus" FACT CHECK BOOM found that the photo is cropped and the original shows...
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