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By Srijit Das A collage of two images of a woman attacked by a mob and a video documenting the attack has been circulating on WhatsApp and Facebook in several parts of West Bengal with false claims that she abducted six children from Barasat, a city in North 24 Parganas district. BOOM reached out to Barasat Superintendent of Police Pratiksha Jharkhariya who confirmed that the woman in the photograph, identified as Parbati Das is innocent. Jharkhariya further told BOOM that the woman was a victim of a rumour spread by a murder suspect - that she kidnapped children in Barasat, which then led to ...
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By Hazel Gandhi A scripted video showing children being kidnapped is being shared with the claim that it is a real incident. BOOM found that the video is scripted and is not based on a real incident. Former lawyer and conservative commentator Rogan O'Handley shared the 29-second video with the caption, "The media claims that child sex trafficking is a conspiracy theory and doesn't want videos like this getting around." He later deleted the video but the post still remains on his Twitter feed. Click here to view the tweet and here for an archive. Click here to view the tweet and here for an arc...
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By Srijit Das A fake message claiming an increase in child kidnapping cases across Kashmir carried out by a Srinagar-based gang is circulating on WhatsApp and other social media. The viral message further states that the police have issued notices to mosques over reports of abductions of a noticeable number of children. BOOM found the claim in the graphic post to be false. Srinagar Police, in a tweet, clarified that no such incident has come to their notice and urged citizens not to fall prey to fake rumours. The latest WhatsApp message comes at a time when fake child-kidnapping rumours have s...
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By Anmol Alphonso A dramatized video purporting to show the kidnapping and rescue of a child accompanying a mute woman, is being shared online falsely claiming the video shows a real incident where a child kidnapper was caught red handed. In the video, which is over five minutes long, a mute woman is seen gesturing to a rickshaw driver as her child standing beside her is kidnapped by another woman. The people recording the video inform the mute woman that the child is missing and help her get the child back after confronting the 'kidnapper'. The video is being shared with the Gujarati text cla...
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