kerala
By Anmol Alphonso
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By Srijit Das Viral social media posts featuring a Malayalam newspaper advertisement of students and their National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) scores, is being shared online with a false and communal claim that Muslim NEET aspirants were the main beneficiaries of the question paper leak fiasco. BOOM found that the claims insinuating Muslim students benefited from the question paper leak, are false. We traced the ad to a coaching institute in Kerala that created the ad and spoke to institute, which clarified that it had nothing to do with the question paper leak row and that the batch...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video of a group of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) supporters in Arangadi, Kasaragod district, Kerala, celebrating the opening ceremony of a new party office by wearing green jerseys with the name 'Arangadi' on them is being shared on social media with a false claim that they wore Pakistan cricket jerseys. BOOM reached out to IUML Kasaragod MLA N.A. Nellikkunnu, under whose constituency Arangadi falls, who rejected the claim that the green jerseys are Pakistani cricket jerseys, and clarified that they are IUML Arangadi jerseys. The viral video is being shared on X with t...
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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 Anmol Alphonso A cropped video of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan talking about the Congress party doing well electorally in Kerala during the 2019 Lok Sabha election is being shared with a false claim that the CM asked people to vote for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his party in the upcoming general election. Kerala has 20 Lok Sabha seats which goto the polls on April 26, 2024. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) alliance led by Vijayan's Communist Party of India (Marxist) had won 1 seat, whereas the Congress led United Democratic Font had won 19 seats, with Gandhi winning from Waya...
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By Anmol Alphonso A collage of two chapters from a textbook printed by a private Islamic school in Kerala that was under the scanner for teaching objectionable and communal content to its students is being shared with the false claim that the textbook was published by the state government in Kerala. The photo shows a textbook with syllabus that propagates Islamic orthodoxy and teaches students to follow it. The viral photo was posted by the verified X handle Mr Sinha (@MrSinha_). The caption of the post reads, " MusIim Aslam : Hygienic, we should buy sweets from his shop -Hindu Appan : Unhygie...
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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 Anmol Alphonso Several Indian news outlets, including ABP News and Zee News MP-Chhattisgarh, misreported a video of a man wearing an elephant costume in Kerala, falsely claiming that it depicted a real elephant dancing among the crowd and grooving to the beats of the drums. In the 1.03-minute video, a crowd of people can be seen dancing with someone wearing an elephant costume, accompanied by the sound of drums and music. The video was posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) by the verified handle 'Eminent Woke' (@WokePandemic) with the caption, "Only Sanatan Culture can keep animals happy"...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video of an injured man sitting in protest after an altercation with temple gaurds at the Sri Ranganatha Swamy temple in Srirangam, Tamil Nadu is being shared with the false claim that Kerala police beat up a Sabarimala devotee. The Kerala government has been facing flak with devotees undertaking the Mandalam pilgrimage complaining about shortage of amenities and mismanagement of queues. The pilgrimage, which began on November 17, 2023 is set to conclude on December 27, 2023. In order to accommodate the heavy rush of pilgrims, the state government has extended the time of d...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video of a young boy bitterly crying for his father after he had got separated from the latter in the crowd in Nilakkal, Kerala during the Sabarimala pilgrimage is being shared on social media with the false and communal spin that the child was detained by Kerala Police in a police van. BOOM spoke to Nilakkal Police, Kerala who rubbished the viral claim stating that the boy got lost in the crowd and was crying as he got separated from his father. Nilakkal Police further stated that he was immediately reunited with his father, and that the child was sitting in a state transp...
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