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By Archis Chowdhury Social media is rife with a video showing a group of people violently assaulting a few unarmed people with sticks with the claim that it shows Muslims entering the home of a Hindu family in Alwar, Rajasthan, and beating them up. BOOM found this claim to be false; according to multiple news reports on the incident, the video shows members of the same family, and same religious background, engage in violent confrontation following a land dispute. Alwar Police also put out a tweet rubbishing the communal claim as false and confirmed that both sides of the conflict were from th...
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By Hazel Gandhi A staged video purporting to show a man urinating in the pork section of a supermarket in Holland is viral online to claim that the man is a Muslim. BOOM found that the claims are false; the video is a prank video and the creator revealed that he did not urinate at all, the video was created using sound effects. The short clip purports to show a man urinating in a supermarket with his back turned to the camera. A caption on X by British far-right politician Paul Golding reads, "Muslim migrant in Holland urinates on the pork section of the supermarket." Click here to view the po...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar In a disturbing viral video, a teacher of a private school in Uttar Pradesh is seen encouraging students to slap and beat their classmate, a 7-year-old boy. While the reason for her act is unclear, the teacher can be heard making Islamophobic comments in the video as she asks his classmates to come and slap him one by one; further admonishing some of them for not slapping him harder. As the video went viral, netizens identified the video being shot at Neha Public School, in Khubbabpur village of Mansoorpur, Muzzafarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh. The teacher has been...
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By Anmol Alphonso A distressing video of a woman being brutally thrashed by a man is circulating on social media with a false claim that the woman, a Muslim, went against her father's wishes and married a Hindu man who is now physically abusing her. BOOM found that the claim has been given a false communal spin and that this incident is from Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, where a man named Shivam Yadav had beaten up his wife Jyoti Yadav due to a family dispute. The video is being shared as an example of the conspiracy theory "Bhagwa Love Trap" happening in India. This conspiracy theory alleges that ...
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By Archis Chowdhury Suresh Chavhanke, the editor-in-chief and founder of right-wing news outlet Sudarshan News, posted a video on Twitter, where a person is seen offering namaz inside a bus, while passengers are seen queuing up outside. Chavhanke purportedly shared this as a footage from India, and claimed that the passengers were waiting outside for the driver to finish offering namaz. However, BOOM found that Chavhanke’s claim is misleading; our fact-check reveals that the incident in the video is from Dubai, and not from India. Furthermore Dubai’s Department of Roads and Transport refuted t...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar A cropped photo of the late Indira Gandhi wearing a saree with the pallu covering her head and sporting a traditional collared coat is being shared with a false claim that it shows her wearing a burqa and covering her head with a hijab. The photo shows late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi standing with Sonia Gandhi and a young Rahul Gandhi in the latter's arms. It is being shared with text that reads, "Indira Gandhi in burkha and Hijab and Rahul Gandhi wearing a cap...they made fools of entire Hindus" FACT CHECK BOOM found that the photo is cropped and the original shows...
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By Archis Chowdhury Several social media posts claimed that the name of the person convicted of raping a 4-year-old - whose sentence was recently reduced from a death sentence to life imprisonment by Madhya Pradesh High Court - is Mohammed Firoz. BOOM found the claim made in these posts to be false; according to the judgement, the name of the rape convict is Ramsingh. Social media posts sharing the name of Mohammed Firoz falsely purports that the accused is Muslim, thus giving a communal spin. Furthermore, the judgement changed the conviction from life imprisonment to 20 years of imprisonment,...
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By BOOM Team BJP leader Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma on Sunday called for the "boycott of a community" while speaking at the 'Virat Hindu Sabha' in Delhi organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's local unit. The MP from West Delhi however did not name any community during his address at the rally. The video of the rally was later shared on social media and people condemned the BJP leader's speech. Also Read:TV News, Social Media Peddled Hate: Citizen's Committee Report On 2020 Delhi Riots According to reports, the event was held in Northeast Delhi's Dilshad Garden to protest the killing of a man, ...
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By Archis Chowdhury A graphic video showing a woman being brutally assaulted by a group of people has been recently shared by Hindi news channel Zee Hindustan through its Twitter handle, as an example of anti-Hindu violence in Pakistan. BOOM found the claim to be false; according to our investigation the woman in the video was assaulted due to a land dispute with her neighbours, and the incident happened over eight months ago in Pakistan's Punjab province. Furthermore, BOOM reached out to the victim Munawar Kanwal, who confirmed to us that she is a devout Muslim, and that her attackers were al...
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By BOOM A video of a woman beating a man on the middle of a busy road is being shared on social media with captions falsely claiming that the man had forced the woman to remove a cloth covering her head, thinking her to be a Muslim person wearing a hijab. BOOM found that the viral claim is false, and the woman had assaulted the man for passing lewd comments at her. Also read Aaj Tak Gives Communal Hue To Hyderabad Drainage Blast The viral video shows a woman getting down from a two-wheeler and start hitting a person who is being dragged by his collar and brought to her. The man who is being dr...
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