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By Nidhi Jacob Of all the fact-checks published by BOOM in September, the G20 Summit 2023, the India-Canada diplomatic standoff and the Morocco earthquake were the most popular topics that generated false and misleading claims, accounting for 11%, 5.3% and 4.3%, respectively. Of the 93 fact-checks that were published in September in English, Hindi and Bangla, 31.18% of the claims were Political in nature. This was followed by Communal (13%) and Alarmist (13%) claims. Claims that were political (31.18%) in nature mostly included topics like the 2023 G20 Summit and the Indo-Canadian diplomatic r...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar An old speech by Abdullah II, King of Jordan talking about faith and curbing hate speech and those spreading it, at a 2018 event in New Delhi is viral with a false claim that it is from the G20 summit that concluded on September 10, 2023. BOOM found that the speech is from a 2018 event ‘Islamic Heritage: Promoting Understanding and Moderation’ held during King Abdullah's visit to New Delhi. The Group of 20 (G20) summit was hosted by India on September 9-10 and attended by world leaders like US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The leaders over bot...
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By Mohammed Kudrati Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis earlier this week claimed that prime ministers and heads of state of 120 countries passed a resolution asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lead them and be their voice. He provided no details as to the passage of this resolution or the forum at which it was passed. Fadnavis made the statement at an event of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday. BOOM found these comments to be vague and based on India's presiding over the Voice of the Global South Summit, which it hosted as part of its ongoing presidency of the G20. Fa...
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By Hazel Gandhi The photo of a clock tower from Nepal is being falsely shared as the one in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir which was restored ahead of the G20 meet in the city. Srinagar hosted the G20 delegates for three days, from May 20-22, and the misleading claim is being circulated in this context. The photo is being shared with the caption, "The clock tower (Ghanta Ghar) is being restored and rebuilt by SMC to reflect our heritage and architecture – down to the finest details as a part of Srinagar’s facelift for G20 meet..." Click here to view the post and here for an archive. Also Read:No,...
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By Anmol Alphonso A photo of a road from a park in Patuakhali town in Bangladesh is being shared with the false claim that it shows Boulevard Road in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir which has been given a makeover for the G20 tourism working group meeting. The third G20 tourism working group meeting will take place from May 22, 2023, to May 24 at the SKICC on the banks of the Dal Lake in Srinagar. The viral photo was tweeted by Wajahat Farooq Bhat, Chairman of a Jammu Kashmir-based NGO Save Youth Save Future with the caption, "Witness the transformation! Boulevard Road in Srinagar has been given a...
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By BOOM Team British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has approved a youth mobility partnership scheme with India that offers 3,000 visas to 18-30-year-old degree-educated Indians every year to live and work in the UK for up to two years. This was announced on Wednesday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his British counterpart on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Indonesia's Bali. "We discussed ways to increase commercial linkages, raise the scope of security cooperation in context of India's defence reforms and make people-to-people ties even stronger," Modi said after meeting Sunak. This wa...
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By Sk Badiruddin Social media posts claiming US President Joe Biden called an emergency meeting at the recently concluded G20 summit in Indonesia while excluding Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are misleading and false. BOOM found that the image shows an emergency meeting of the members of G7 bloc and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), of which India is not a part of. The G20 leaders of the world's most advanced economies met this year at the Nusa Dua resort in Bali, Indonesia between November 15-16. The primary focus of the summit was ensuring food security, economic recovery from the o...
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By BOOM Team Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to leave for Bali on Monday for the G20 summit on November 15-16. Modi will be joined by other world leaders like US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the summit. "Leaving for Bali, Indonesia, to take part in the G-20 Summit. I will have the opportunity to interact with various world leaders on a wide range of issues. I will also be addressing a community programme," PM Modi said in a tweet on Monday. Here is all you n...
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