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By Anmol Alphonso An old video from Afghanistan of a large crowd gathered at the airport runway with several helicopters taking off is being shared with the false claim that it shows the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) troops landing in Ukraine. NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance between 31 member states from North America and Europe, prominently consisting of the United States, Germany, United Kingdom. Ukraine is not part of the NATO. The video was tweeted by a Twitter user Dane (@UltraDane) with the caption. "In case you missed it, NATO soldiers now in Ukraine." Click h...
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By Archis Chowdhury An image showing a room with the flags representing the Pride movement, Democratic Socialists of America and the North Atlantic Fellas Organisation (NAFO), is viral on the internet with the claim that it shows the room of the Nashville shooter Audrey Hale (later changed to Aiden Hale). BOOM found this claim to be false; we found this image was originally posted on Twitter on December 16, 2021, by user @RedCharlotte_. We further verified that the user had indeed taken the photos, using the metadata of the the original image, which she sent us by email. Six people including t...
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By The Conversation Matthew Sussex , Australian National University One of the most persistent fears about Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has been the potential for the war to ramp up dramatically in scope. Those fears are legitimate, especially given the bellicose rhetoric and brinkmanship emanating from the Kremlin. And although concerns about nuclear escalation have dominated the headlines, the surest path to a bigger war would be an attack – inadvertent or otherwise – on a NATO state. If NATO members were drawn in, that would bring about what Kremlin propagandists have been ...
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By The Conversation Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine, has threatened that Russia will "make use of all weapon systems available to us" if Russia's territorial integrity is threatened. Putin has characterized the war in Ukraine as an existential battle against the West, which he said wants to weaken, divide and destroy Russia. U.S. President Joe Biden criticized Putin's overt nuclear threats against Europe. Meanwhile, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg downplayed the threat, sa...
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By Sana Fazili One Reddit post shared on Facebook last week has got Sweden under intense fire on social media, so much so that '#Swedengate' is trending on Twitter. In the Reddit post, a person had shared his experience of a sleepover at his Swedish friend's place. While the family ate the dinner and breakfast together, the guest was asked to wait and not offered any food. The post has changed (and even shaped) Twitteratis' perspective of seeing Swedish. For most of them now, Swedes are people who are rude to the guests and lack the etiquette of offering them food. The peculiarity of the Swedi...
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