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By Nivedita Niranjankumar Marathi news outlets including ABP, News18 Lokmat, NDTV and Hindustan Times Marathi misreported that the minor accused in the Pune Porsche crash made an expletive-filled rap song about getting bail easily despite two people being killed in the accident. BOOM found that the rap song was made by an Instagram account Cringistaan2, run by a Delhi based youngster Aryan Neekhara and not the detained minor accused in the Pune rash driving case. The rap video was posted by Neekhara who runs multiple accounts, all of them posting dark humour memes and reels showing him pulling...
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By Hazel Gandhi Several media outlets including The Indian Express, Times of India, Hindustan Times, ABP News, and Times Now ran reports claiming that actor Siddharth criticised women for not celebrating the Royal Challengers Bangalore's recent win in the Women's Premier League. BOOM found that the claims are false; the statement was made by Siddharth's namesake account on X and is unrelated to the actor. Led by captain Smriti Mandhana, the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated Delhi Capitals and clinched the title of the Women's Premier League on March 17, 2024. A user on X, Siddharth (@...
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By Srijit Das A video of cricketer Virat Kohli participating in a Ganesh Chaturthi event last year has surfaced with a misleading claim that it shows visuals of him being present at the Ram Mandir consecration ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22. Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar and Gujarati newspaper Divya Bhaskar also used a screengrab from the now viral video in its different editions, published on January 23, 2024, further amplifying the false claim. BOOM however found that the video is from 2023. We also reached out to an official photographer covering the consecration ceremony in Ayodhya who...
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By Hazel Gandhi A post purportedly made from Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's X account is viral online with the false claim that he criticised Sania Mirza following her separation from Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik by saying that her "Pakistani child" should not be granted an Indian visa. BOOM found that the claims are false, the post was made by a verified X account impersonating Sarma. Shoaib Malik recently married Pakistani actress Sana Javed amid rumours about his separation from wife Sania Mirza. Following his wedding announcement and pictures, the former Indian tennis pla...
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By Srijit Das Several mainstream media outlets including NDTV, India Today and Mirror Now misleadingly reported that a truck carrying firecrackers, caught fire while heading towards Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya for the grand inauguration of the Ram temple on January 22, 2024. BOOM found that the truck caught fire in Unnao and was on its way to Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich. We reached out to Unnao DSP Sonam Singh who confirmed that the truck was transporting firecrackers from Tamil Nadu to Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich; furthermore, the firecrackers being carried in the truck had no connection with the celeb...
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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 Archis Chowdhury A five-year-old video of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni saying Islam is not compatible with European culture, has been widely misreported by multiple Indian media outlets as a recent comment. Meloni was recently accompanied by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at an event in Rome, organised by her far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (Fdi). Her five-year-old comment on Islam, made before she became prime minister, has been misleadingly reported as a statement made after this event by many news articles shared online. BOOM was unable to find any recent comment on Islam ...
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By Srijit Das An old news bulletin showing lawmakers chanting slogans against the United States in the Iranian parliament after the killing of Iranian military officer Qasem Soleimani in 2020 is falsely being linked to the ongoing Israel-Palestine war. The claim was further amplified by news outlet Times Now who recently published a news report on the same. The report stated that Iran's parliamentarians chanted slogans like 'Death to Israel! Death to America!' following Hamas' attack on Israeli city Tel Aviv. The report carried a post by a blue ticked X user (formerly Twitter) who shared the C...
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By Archis Chowdhury On Monday, several news outlets reported about an alleged assault of an Indian Army soldier in Kadakkal, in Kerala's Kollam district, by a group of people, with the words "PFI" - short for Popular Front of India, a now-banned Islamic political organisation - written on his back by his assailants. BOOM found these reports to be false; our fact-check reveals that the entire incident was faked by the soldier Shine Kumar. Kadakkal Police told BOOM that Kumar has been taken into custody for falsifying the case, and getting his friend to write "PFI" on his back. Kumar's friend, J...
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By Srijit Das A viral video of Mamata Banerjee where it appears the West Bengal chief minister said Hindu epic Mahabharat was written by Bengali poet and freedom fighter Kazi Nazrul Islam, is cropped and misleading. BOOM found that the video has been cropped out of context to make it appear like Banerjee made an embarrassing faux pas. In the widely circulated video, the chief minister can be heard saying, "Mahabharat... Kazi Najrul Islam wrote". The video went viral after Banerjee falsely mentioned that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi went to the moon and mixed up Indian astronaut Rakesh S...
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