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By Hazel Gandhi A video purporting to show Pakistani flags being raised at a recent rally in Hyderabad, Telangana is viral online with the false claim that the incident took place under the Congress government's rule in the state. BOOM found that the video is at least six months old and was taken before the Congress came to power in the state. Further, the video does not show Pakistani flags and was taken during the celebrations of Milad un Nabi. The video shows Islamic flags being raised in a rally near the Tank Bund area in Hyderabad, Telangana. News outlet Asianet reported on the video base...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video showing a woman being groped by a man at a political rally is viral online with the false claim that the woman is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) being groped by workers of the same party. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video is from 2007 and shows a rally organised in Pakistan by the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). The viral clip shows a woman in a pink salwar kameez participating in a rally as slogans of Jai Shree Ram are heard in the background. A man standing next to her is seen touching her inappropriately while they are campaigning. A user o...
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By Hazel Gandhi A photo showing a sea of green flags at a Congress road show is viral online with the false claim that the image shows Pakistani flags at the party's recent rally. BOOM found that the claims are false, the photo is from 2019 in Wayanad and shows flags of the Kerala-based political party, Indian Union Muslim League, not Pakistan. A user on X shared the photo with the caption, "This is not Pakistan, Its congress raily in India itself. Their message is very clear. I hope now your choice will be very clear. 🙏 #LokSabhaElections2024 #Elections2024 #BJP4India" Click here to view the ...
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By Srijit Das An old video showing a crowd holding green flags has resurfaced on social media with a false claim that it shows Pakistani flags were waved at a rally in support of Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad, Kerala. BOOM found that the flags featured in the video do not show the national flag of Pakistan. Rather, they are green flags displaying a half crescent moon and a star, which represent the party flag of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), a political party based in Kerala. Moreover the video is from 2019 and not recent. Several news outlets reported the flags of both the Congress party a...
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By Srijit Das An old video from Pakistan of a crowded market with several Muslim women in burqas is being shared on social media falsely claiming that it is from Bradford, United Kingdom. The video is being shared on X with an anti-immigration and communal spin claiming that Bradford has transformed and become over crowded after mass immigration by Muslim migrants in Europe. Several verified X users posted the 22 seconds video with a caption, "UK Migration Crisis The British city of Bradford is completely unrecognizable due to mass immigration. The picture is the same in many other European ci...
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By Hazel Gandhi A collage of two photos showing jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is viral online with the misleading claim that the photo shows him casting his vote for the general election while being jailed. BOOM found that while Khan did cast his vote, this photo is old and unrelated to the ongoing general election of Pakistan. Pakistan held its general elections on February 8, 2024, where candidates backed by Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf ran as independents against Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). PTI candidates are leading as counting of votes...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video on X purporting to show jailed former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan announcing his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's boycott of the ongoing general election in the country is viral online. BOOM found that the audio is fake and has been created using an AI voice cloning tool to discourage voters from participating in the election. Neither Khan nor the PTI has made any announcements about withdrawing from the election. The synthetic audio underscores concerns of artificial intelligence particularly deepfake technology being misused around the world to subvert elec...
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By The Conversation Saira Bano, Thompson Rivers UniversityIn the lead-up to upcoming general elections in Pakistan, the country’s Human Rights Commission has voiced significant concerns about “pre-poll rigging” and the “blatant manipulation” of the electoral process. The Feb. 8 elections are apparently unlikely to be conducted in a fair and free manner. Pakistan has a history of electoral engineering, with the military often playing a pivotal role as a “kingmaker.” This consistent military interference in Pakistani politics explains current fears about the integrity of the democratic process i...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar A video from Pakistan of a man assaulting a child and then threatening to kill his wife with a rifle is viral a false claim that it shows a Muslim man who married a minor and then threatened to kill as she refused to consummate the marriage. BOOM found that the video is from Lahore, Pakistan and the man resorted to extreme violence after a domestic dispute with this wife. In the viral video, a man is first seen pushing a young girl away, as she cries for her mother and later the same man is seen in another room getting out a rifle as other men rush to stop him and tak...
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