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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A photo of President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being shared on social media claiming that she accompanied PM Modi while he was filing his nomination for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Fact: BOOM found that the viral photo is from 2022, when Modi and other senior BJP leaders accompanied Murmu for the nomination process as NDA's presidential candidate. Also, as of May 8, 2024, PM Modi is yet to file his nomination. Tools used: We ran a Google reverse image search which led us to a post on X by PM Modi in 2022, wh...
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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 BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: An ad apparently for CEAT tyres with an anti-Modi tagline asking people to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the centre is viral. Fact: BOOM found that the viral ad is an edited version and the original ad by CEAT tyres dates back to June 2017. It is unrelated to the ongoing Lok Sabha polls and does not carry any anti-Modi tagline as suggested in the viral claim. Tools used: Taking a clue from the 'Paise Bachane Hai? (Want to save money?)' tagline, we ran a search for the advertisement on Google. This led us to a YouTube video ...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath apparently questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the 'mangalsutras' (a sacred thread worn by married Hindu women) of the widows of the security personnel who died in the Pulwama terror attack is viral. Fact: BOOM found that the video is altered by cutting and pasting different portions of Yogi Adityanth's speech to make the false claim. In the original speech, Adityanath was in fact quoting Dimple Yadav, Samajwadi Party leader, who had in her speech attacked PM Modi's mangalsutra remark. Tools used:...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A viral video shows actor Ranveer Singh criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi over rising unemployment and soaring inflation. Fact: BOOM found that the video is a deepfake. It is digitally altered with a synthetic voice clone and in the original video, which was an interview given to Asian News International (ANI), the actor praised the prime minister and said the latter was celebrating India's cultural heritage. Tools used: BOOM analysed the video using Itisaar, a deepfake detection tool developed by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur. The tool ...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A deepfake video of actor Aamir Khan purportedly criticising an old 2013 statement made by then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of depositing Rs 15 lakh in every Indian's bank account is viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the claim is false, the video uses an AI voice clone of Aamir Khan; the original video is from 2014 and has been overlaid with a fake audio to depict Khan's criticism of the central government. Tools used: We noticed that the background score of the video was from the show Satyamev Jayate and scanned its YouTube channel. We found that...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: Amit Malviya, Bharatiya Janata Party's IT cell head claimed that a video of party candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav alias Nirahua making remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath being childless, was a deepfake. In the video, Yadav the BJP candidate from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, claimed Modi and Adityanath have preferred to be childless to stop unemployment. It was posted by Indian Youth Congress President Srinivas BV on X and the same was rubbished as a deepfake by Malviya and Yadav himself. Fact: BOOM found that the vi...
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Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez left Spain in suspense after announcing he may step down because of what he called an “unprecedented smear campaign" against his wife. Sánchez, who has been in office since 2018, stunned the nation on Wednesday by announcing that he was cancelling all official events until next week, when he will unveil his future plans. The announcement came hours after a Madrid provincial judge agreed to study allegations of corruption brought by a right-wing group against Sánchez's wife, Begoña Gómez. What's next for Sanchez?If Sánchez resigns then it will fall to Spai...
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If there was anyone who imagined that, after kowtowing to Boris Johnson throughout his dismal premiership, leading her own dangerous and divisive culture war campaign for the Tory party leadership contest, crashing the UK economy in one afternoon, and resigning after a mere seven weeks as Prime Minister, Liz Truss would beat a quiet, shamefaced retreat from the public eye, then those people - and there can’t have been many - need to think again. Today, the shortest-serving British Prime Minister ever releases her new book, the ominously (and poorly) titled 'Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons ...
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The new center-right minority government in Portugal took office on Tuesday, soon after its parliamentary test underscored the challenges and possibilities it faces following the rise of a radical right populist party in the recent general election. Only one of the 17 ministers sworn in at a ceremony in Lisbon’sAjuda National Palace has previous top-level government experience.Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, who promised a Cabinet made up of specialists from outside the usual political circles, has not previously served in any government role. Some key members of the Cabinet have spent time in...
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