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By Hazel Gandhi A video showing News18 Hindi's anchor Amish Devgan reporting on the benefits of a casino gaming app called 11Winner is viral online as real. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video is a deepfake and Devgan never promoted the use of such an app. The video shows a news bulletin where Devgan first talks about the app, followed by the story of a man who earned a lot of money using it. The video claims that the man, a Vinod Shinde, managed to buy a sports car and a two-storey house from his winnings on the app and turned his life around. A graphic on the video reads, "300,00...
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By Hazel Gandhi The year 2023 was a busy one for the fake news industry - it led us fact-checkers at BOOM to write over a 1,000 fact-checks across three different languages. A closer look at our work revealed that 77 unique fact-checks were on false reporting, or misreporting, by news channels, news websites and wire agencies between January 1 to December 31, 2023. Since 2020, BOOM has published an annual report all the fact-checks we did on false or misleading claims being spread by these media outlets, and the number has been steadily rising over the years. In 2020, as the world was gripped ...
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By Ritika Jain In a series of orders released last week, the National Broadcasters and Digital Standards Association (NBDSA) condemned CNN News 18 its anchor Aman Chopra and Zee News for airing shows with communal “colour” and “undertones”. News channel Times Now was cautioned for airing unverified news. “By starting the debate on the premise that 20% people were ganging up against Hindus constituting 80%, the anchor had given the debate a thrust, which is communal in nature and not appropriate,” the order delivered by NBDSA Chairperson Justice AK Sikri (Retd.) read. Justice Sikri’s order came...
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By Srijit Das Several mainstream news outlets ran a video from Madhya Pradesh showing locals thrash a group of thieves disguised as sadhus (holy men) and claimed it showed an incident in Sangli, Maharashtra where a group of sadhus were attacked on suspicions of being child kidnappers. Earlier this week, four sadhus were beaten up by villagers in Maharashtra's Sangli district on suspicion of being child kidnappers. The sadhus were heading towards the temple town of Pandharpur via Sangli district in a car and stopped it at Lavangi village for asking directions. A local youth suspected the sadhus...
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