Pathaan In The Disinformation Spotlight In January: BOOM Monthly Report
By Debraj Sarkar The month of January saw significant amount of Islamophobic claims and anti-Bollywood claims, with the latter primarily targeting the newly released film 'Pathaan', accounting for 10.34 per cent and 9.2 per cent of all our fact-checks, respectively. BOOM did 87 fact-checks in the month of January, in English, Hindi, and Bangla, each of them debunking a unique false or misleading claim. Our analysis revealed that most of the claims are Political in nature - accounting for 24 per cent of the data set, followed by International and Entertainment related claims, comprising 20 per ...