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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video of Home Minister Amit Shah is being shared on social media claiming that it shows him promising to end reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) communities if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is voted back to power. Fact: BOOM found that an old video has been edited and in the original video which dates back to 2023, Amit Shah is seen talking about ending Muslim reservation in Telangana if BJP is voted to power in the state. Shah had recently dismissed Congress' allegation that his party would end r...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A viral screenshot claims to show India Today's Mood of the Nation survey predicted 17 Lok Sabha seats for the Samajwadi Party. Fact: BOOM found that it's an edited screenshot and the original one actually shows the survey predicting seven seats for the Akhilesh Yadav led SP. Tools used: We checked the the original live stream on India Today's YouTube channel uploaded on March 20, 2024. Read the full fact-check here.
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video showing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker from Chennai being thrashed is viral online as recent and is being connected to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Fact: BOOM found that the video dates back to July 2023 and shows the District Secretary of BJP's IT and Social Media Cell in Chennai being beaten up by members of his own party. Tools used: We watched the viral video closely and noticed that it carried the date '31/07/2023'. We ran a search for the incident using Tamil keywords and found news reports published on August 1, 2023. Also, the verified ...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: An old photo of the former Indian men’s cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is being circulated online with a claim that it shows him urging people to vote for the Congress. Fact: BOOM found that the picture dates back to 2020, when Dhoni and his other team members celebrated Chennai Super Kings (CSK) reaching six million followers on erstwhile Twitter (now X). Tools used: BOOM performed a reverse image search on the photo that led to several news reports carrying the same photo. These reports were published in October 2020. Also, CSK's official social medi...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: Several social media users claimed that Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra said 'sex' was the source of her energy. Fact: BOOM found that a careful hearing of the full video shows that Moitra spoke about how 'eggs' were the source of her energy, not sex. Tools used: BOOM noticed a watermark in the viral video that led us to the original video uploaded on YouTube. Also, we reached out to Mahua Moitra who shared a clearer version of the video without the background noise and music. The interviewer also called out the viral claim. Read the full fact-check ...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video showing a polling agent press the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) button five times for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate during a mock poll is being shared with the misleading claim that it was captured during voting in the second phase of the Lok Sabha election. BOOM found that the incident happened in Assam's Karimganj where the mock poll video went viral as actual voting. In the viral video, a man can be seen pressing the EVM button five times in a row for the BJP candidate and sitting Member of Parliament (MP) Kripanath Mallah. The video is being shared ...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of Home Minister Amit Shah talking about ending Muslim reservation in Telangana has been doctored and shared with the false claim that it shows him promising to end reservation of the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) community if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is voted back to power. In the viral video Shah can be heard saying, "If the Bharatiya Janata Party forms the government, we will end the unconstitutional reservation for SC, ST and OBC." The video was posted by Jharkhand Congress with the caption that rough...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video showing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker from Chennai being thrashed is viral online as recent and is being falsely connected to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the video dates back to July 2023 and shows the District Secretary of BJP's IT and Social Media Cell in Chennai being beaten up by members of his own party. The video shows a CCTV footage where a man in a green shirt is being beaten up by a group of people. They pin him against the wall and tear his shirt after which a police officer arrives and pacifies the situation. A user on X shar...
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By Shefali Srivastava An old video purportedly showing Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami distributing cash in exchange for votes is viral online as recent. BOOM found that the video dates back to 2022 and was taken during the Uttarakhand assembly elections when the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused the Bharatiya Janata Party and Dhami of buying votes. The viral video is divided in two parts, one shows an envelope with the name of Shiv Arora, that has Rs 1000 in it. The second part shows CM Dhami being confronted by a group of people for distributing cash in exchange for votes. Congres...
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By Anmol Alphonso Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently, in a campaign speech, misquoted former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's comments from a December 2006 speech, misleadingly claiming that the Congress leader said Muslims have the first right to India's resources. Modi made the claim in his speech, where he also criticised the Congress party's manifesto and made remarks with communal undertones during a public rally in Rajasthan. Modi on April 22, 2024, at a public rally in Banswara, Rajasthan, also went on to link Singh's old remarks to the Congress 2024 Lok Sabha manifesto and falsely cl...
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