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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A notice claiming to show Dubai-based Association of Sunni Muslims offering financial support to Muslims travelling to Karnataka to oust the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the claims are false, we found no evidence regarding the existence of an organisation called the Association of Sunni Muslims in Dubai and the address and contact numbers mentioned in the notice were fake too. Tools used: We first ran a search for the Association of Sunni Muslims (Dubai) on Google and Facebook and d...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video purporting to show Congress workers in Karnataka burning an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and instead setting their lungis on fire is viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the claims are false, the video is from 2012 and shows members of the Kerala Students Union (KSU) burning an effigy of Mahatma Gandhi University's then Vice Chancellor. The video is being falsely linked to 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Tools used: We ran a reverse image search of some keyframes from the viral video on Google and found a Facebook post from September 1, 2012 that carri...
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By Srijit Das An old video of a man slamming an EVM control unit on the floor during the Karnataka Assembly elections has been revived with a misleading claim that the incident is recent and took place during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the incident occurred in Mysuru on May 10, 2023, during the Karnataka Assembly elections. In the 59-second footage, a man can be seen signing the register. The situation then quickly escalates as he forcefully grabs the EVM control unit and hurls it to the ground. Polling officers and police personnel then immediately rush in to prevent him...
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By Rohit Kumar A video of a mob overturning a car during a Rath Yatra procession near a temple in Karnataka is being shared on social media with the false and communal claim that a Muslim man deliberately parked his car obstructing the procession route to the temple. BOOM found that the claim is false and spoke to the constable of Mulki police station in Dakshina Kannada district, who stated that there is no communal motive behind the incident and clarified that the mob overturned several other vehicles along the procession route. While sharing the post, a Facebook user wrote, "In Karnataka, a...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video purporting to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejecting an idol of Lord Ganesha offered to him during an event, is cropped and misleading. BOOM found that the video is from May 2023 and a longer version shows PM Modi accepting the idol along with other gifts offered to him. The 11-second clip shows PM Modi on the stage during a rally where he is seen signalling a man offering him the Ganesh idol to step back. A caption on Facebook reads, "Imagine if Rahul Gandhi had refused to take Lord Ganesh instead of Modi, today the entire media and BJP's supporters would hav...
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By Anmol Alphonso A clipped video of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is being shared on social media falsely claiming that he said that he would like to be born a Muslim in his next life. BOOM found that CM Siddaramaiah in his original speech was referring to a comment made by former Prime Minister and Janta Dal (Secular) leader H.D. Deve Gowda while calling him out for for allying with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state, calling their politics "non- secular" in nature. The 20-second video was posted on X by right wing handle, Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) with the caption, "Sid...
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By Anmol Alphonso A photo of the timetable for the upcoming Class 10 Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) exams in Karnataka with one date highlighted is being shared with a false communal claim that the Science exam on March 1 has been scheduled for the afternoon, to allow Muslim students to offer prayers as it is a Friday. Karnataka is set to hold board exams for Class 10 starting from February 26, 2024 till March 3, 2024. The state will also be holding board examinations for the Second Pre University (PU) exams i.e. class 12 exams from March 1 to March 22, 2024. While the timing for ...
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By Anmol Alphonso A cropped video of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is being shared on social media falsely claiming that he is backtracking and saying that the state government has no money to deliver on the poll promises and guarantees that the Congress party made during the election. BOOM found that the viral video omits the portion from CM Siddaramaiah's speech where he is referring to former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S Yediyurappa and accusing him of backtracking from his poll promises when he was in power. The 13 seconds video was quote tweeted by Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K....
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By Anmol Alphonso A photo of Students' Federation of India (SFI) Mysuru leader TS Vijay Kumar is being shared on social media misidentifying him as D Manoranjan, who hails from Mysuru and is an accused in the recent Indian parliament security breach case. On December 13, 2023, two men, who were part of a group, jumped into the Lok Sabha from the visitor’s gallery with smoke canisters. They were identified as Lucknow resident Sagar Sharma (28) and Mysuru resident D. Manoranjan (33). They both jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the visitors’ gallery, raised slogans and opened canisters that ...
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