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By Hazel Gandhi An old video showing a group of Nihang Sikhs wielding their swords and attacking policemen has been revived on social media, and is being falsely linked to the ongoing farmers' protest outside Delhi. BOOM found that the video has been circulating online since January 2021, with reports linking it to the confrontation between protesters and police during the Republic Day celebrations that year. It is therefore dated by over three years, and is unrelated to the recent protests by farmers. About 200 farmers' unions belonging to Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan have or...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video from 2018 is being shared with a false communal claim that a stage in Pakistan collapsed after an Imam standing on it was speaking about the extermination of Jews. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video shows a stage collapsing during an election campaign of Pakistani political party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) because it was overburdened and not because of any anti-Jew statements. The 30-second video shows a man speaking while standing on the stage along with other people after which the stage collapses and all of them fall down. A caption on Facebook suggests t...
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By Hazel Gandhi An news channel's old video of a sting operation on a slaughter house in Karachi, Pakistan, which was exposed for passing off donkey and dog meat to unsuspecting customers, is being shared on Twitter falsely linking it to the country's ongoing economic crisis. BOOM found that the video is from 2014 and has no connection to Pakistan's economic situation. This clip is being shared to claim that Pakistanis have resorted to eating dog and donkey meat out of desperation and lack of money. In January 2023, Pakistan's inflation rate was 27.6 percent, and according to Moody's, it is ex...
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By Hazel Gandhi Two old and unrelated videos are going viral online as videos from the recent earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria. BOOM found that the first video is from Nepal, and the second is from Trinidad and Tobago. Türkiye and Syria were hit with an intense earthquake of 7.8 magnitude on 6 February, 2023, resulting in a death toll of more than 23,000 and counting. The first videos shows a CCTV footage with a street view. In the video, people are struggling to hold on to something stable as the earthquake begins and the road and cars start moving. The second video is also a CCTV foo...
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