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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of Aaj Tak news anchor Chitra Tripathi, has been overlaid with a fake audio to make a false claim that based on a News24 survey, Tripathi is predicting a Congress victory in the upcoming general elections. BOOM found that the scene viral video is from July 2023, a clip from Tripathi's TV debate show 'Dangal' on Aaj Tak, where she was responding to panelist Manojit Mandal after he alleged that the ethnic violence in Manipur was not covered by the channel. But the audio has been changed and a new one added in a voice that sounds like Tripathi, to make the fake clai...
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By Sachin Baghel Several edited Facebook videos of popular TV news anchors are viral online with the false claim that they were recently seen promoting a medication for diabetes. BOOM found that all of the videos have been edited, with the overlaid audio of the anchors speaking, most likely created with generative AI. The videos show anchors like Ravish Kumar, Arnab Goswami, Anjana Om Kashyap, and Sudhir Chaudhary promoting the medication. They are seen making statements such as, "An Indian doctor has developed a medicine that normalises blood sugar in a single dose. The doctor believes in the...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old interview of Rahul Gandhi suggesting how one should change their jacket and shoes in order to make a difference in the country is viral online with false claims that he made a blunder while speaking to the journalist. BOOM found that several clips of the old interview have been edited, their order rearranged and stitched together to make this claim. The full interview does not show Rahul Gandhi making such a statement. The 38-second clip shows the interviewer asking Rahul Gandhi if he will keep going despite losing. To this, Rahul Gandhi answers in the affirmative and in...
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By Hazel Gandhi A parody X (formerly Twitter) handle of news agency Asian News International (ANI) recently claimed that Sudhir Chaudhary, editor of Aaj Tak has resigned from the news channel. BOOM found that the claims are false In a recent interview, Sudhir Chaudhary found himself in a heated discussion with Smriti Irani, BJP minister who holds the portfolios of Women and Child Development and Minority Affairs. Chaudhary began questioning Irani about the soaring prices of tomatoes and asked if the prices affected her household personally. Irani took an objection to this and responded by sayi...
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By Srijit Das India Today group's AajTak and AajTak Bangla recently used two artificially generated images of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and falsely claimed that the photos were clicked after Khan was arrested following a court ruling in Pakistan. BOOM found that the pictures were created using a generative AI tool and does not show real images of Khan in prison as claimed. Khan, who also led the Pakistan cricket team in international level, was arrested on May 9, 2023 at Islamabad High Court by paramilitary troops over corruption charges. Following the incident, Khan's Pakistan...
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By Srijit Das Official handles of Delhi and Tripura Congress tweeted a collage of two graphics with the Aaj Tak logo claiming the channel said that the Bharat Jodo Yatra has made Rahul Gandhi more popular than Narendra Modi among masses. BOOM found that the graphic is from a 2019 news story by the channel about a survey conducted to check the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other opposition members and and puts together screengrabs for answers to two different questions from the 'Mood of the Nation' poll. According to news reports, Congress leader R...
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By Srijit Das Several mainstream news outlets ran a video from Madhya Pradesh showing locals thrash a group of thieves disguised as sadhus (holy men) and claimed it showed an incident in Sangli, Maharashtra where a group of sadhus were attacked on suspicions of being child kidnappers. Earlier this week, four sadhus were beaten up by villagers in Maharashtra's Sangli district on suspicion of being child kidnappers. The sadhus were heading towards the temple town of Pandharpur via Sangli district in a car and stopped it at Lavangi village for asking directions. A local youth suspected the sadhus...
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By Mohammed Kudrati In a television interview to Aaj Tak, Ravishankar Prasad, senior BJP leader and former Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Communication and Law, claimed that "unicorns" are companies who have earned $1 billion in revenue. His claim is false since the widely accepted definition of a unicorn is a large startup that has crossed $1 billion in terms of valuation and not in terms of revenue. Prasad made this claim while speaking to Shweta Singh, an anchor with the television channel Aaj Tak. Prasad was referring to India's startup environment, and the pace...
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By Sachin Baghel A screenshot of an Aaj Tak news report with a misleading headline of a blast incident from Hyderabad is viral on social media. The headline of the Hindi report translates to 'Hyderabad: Chemical blast in Gowliguda Gol Masjid, 2 grievously injured'. BOOM spoke to the local police and found that a suspected chemical blast took place in a drain in Afzalgunj, Hyderabad on June 12, and not in a mosque as claimed by the news report. The explosion claimed the life of a man and left one injured. While Aaj Tak updated its Hindi report with a different headline, its Bangla report contin...
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