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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: An image of a list showing Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief K Annamalai receiving only one vote at a polling booth during the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections is circulating on X. Fact: BOOM found that it's a morphed image and the original one shows Annamalai received 101 votes and not one vote after the first round of counting for the Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat. Tools used: On adding the number of votes mentioned in the viral image, the total tally comes to 1,752 votes. However, the total tally shown is 1,852. Hence, there is a difference of 10...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video showing Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supporters setting fire to a photo of N Chandrababu Naidu, the party leader, is viral online with the false claim that it shows the people of Andhra Pradesh protesting against Naidu for forming a government with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) following the Lok Sabha elections. The Lok Sabha elections concluded on June 4, 2024, and Chandrababu Naidu's TDP emerged as the winner from Andhra Pradesh by clinching a majority in 16 out of the 25 seats. The incumbent YSRCP trailed with only 4 seats, and the BJP secured 3 seats. Following this,...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar Media outlets including news wire agency ANI misreported an opinion piece published in The Print as a quote by Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) Vice President and party candidate from Baramulla constituency Omar Abdullah. The media reports claimed that the former J&K chief minister said that Rashid Sheikh winning the Lok Sabha elections from the region, is a sign that "Kashmiri secessionism is far from spent." Abdullah lost by a margin of nearly 2 lakh votes to independent candidate Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid. Founder of the Ja...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video purporting to show a Muslim man criticising the Hindus of Ayodhya for not electing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in their constituency of Faizabad is viral online. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video does not show a Muslim man, but a pro-BJP Hindu content creator from Agra, Dhirendra Raghav. The results of the Lok Sabha elections were announced on June 4, 2024, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Faizabad, Lallu Singh, lost to Samajwadi Party's Awadhesh Prasad by a margin of 54,567 votes. This defeat has been especially upsetting ...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A letter purportedly written by Karnataka Congress leader MB Patil to former Congress President Sonia Gandhi detailing a plan to "divide Hindus" in Karnataka before the 2018 assembly election, is viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the fake letter has been viral since 2018 Karnataka assembly election and was posted by BJP Karnataka's official X handle in 2019. Tools used: BOOM had previously fact-checked the same letter and spoken to Patil who had called the letter fake and also initiated legal action against those sharing it. Read the full fact-check here.
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video purporting to show ABP News anchor Sandeep Chaudhary predicting a thumping victory for the I.N.D.I.A. alliance while announcing exit poll figures for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, is viral. Fact: BOOM found that the news graphics in the viral video have been doctored to support the false claim. In the original broadcast, ABP News predicted that the BJP-led NDA alliance would sweep back to power. Tools used: We traced the original ABP News broadcast to June 2, 2024 and found that the news graphic numbers are different from those in the viral video, predict...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video of an Islamic flag being waved in Shrirampur, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra was shared by the right-wing outlet Sudarshan News's Marathi handle with a false claim that it showed a Pakistan flag being waved by I.N.D.I.A alliance supporters after the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) candidate Nilesh Lanke won the seat. Lanke won the Ahemdnagar Lok Sabha seat with 6,24,797 votes defeating Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Dr. Sujay Vikhepatil. The opposition lead I.N.D.I.A alliance / MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi) won 30 Lok Sabha seats in the state, with the ruling BJ...
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By Nidhi Jacob India conducted the world's largest democratic exercise in seven phases between April 19 and June 1, 2024. Over the last three months (March 1 to May 31), BOOM analysed 258 election-related fact-checks in English, Hindi and Bangla. Of the total debunked fact-checks, 43% (111 fact-checks) involved old and unrelated election-related videos and images being falsely presented as recent. Additionally, 10 fact-checks addressed claims of rigging electronic voting machines (EVMs), 12 involved AI-generated fabricated information, and 10 contained communal content. 18 out of the total fac...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: An image of a Vistara flight boarding pass has been shared online claiming that it shows the ticket of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi leaving the country on June 5, a day after the announcement of the 2024 Lok Sabha election results. The boarding pass shows Rahul Gandhi's name as the ticket holder and mentions a travel date of June 5, 2024, from India to Thailand's Bangkok. Fact: BOOM found that the photo is digitally altered. Tools used: BOOM first observed the picture closely and noticed a significant discrepancy in the viral boarding pass. The flight number on t...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video purporting to show ABP News anchor Sandeep Chaudhary predicting a thumping victory for the I.N.D.I.A. alliance while announcing exit poll figures for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, is altered and fake. BOOM found that the news graphics and audio in the viral video have been doctored to support the false claim. In the original broadcast, ABP News predicted that the BJP-led NDA alliance would sweep back to power. The results for the Lok Sabha 2024 elections are set to be declared on June 4, 2024. In the video, Chaudhary can be heard saying, "I.N.D.I.A alliance will get 3...
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