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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A viral video shows actor Ranveer Singh criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi over rising unemployment and soaring inflation. Fact: BOOM found that the video is a deepfake. It is digitally altered with a synthetic voice clone and in the original video, which was an interview given to Asian News International (ANI), the actor praised the prime minister and said the latter was celebrating India's cultural heritage. Tools used: BOOM analysed the video using Itisaar, a deepfake detection tool developed by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur. The tool ...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A deepfake video of actor Aamir Khan purportedly criticising an old 2013 statement made by then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of depositing Rs 15 lakh in every Indian's bank account is viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the claim is false, the video uses an AI voice clone of Aamir Khan; the original video is from 2014 and has been overlaid with a fake audio to depict Khan's criticism of the central government. Tools used: We noticed that the background score of the video was from the show Satyamev Jayate and scanned its YouTube channel. We found that...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: Amit Malviya, Bharatiya Janata Party's IT cell head claimed that a video of party candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav alias Nirahua making remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath being childless, was a deepfake. In the video, Yadav the BJP candidate from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, claimed Modi and Adityanath have preferred to be childless to stop unemployment. It was posted by Indian Youth Congress President Srinivas BV on X and the same was rubbished as a deepfake by Malviya and Yadav himself. Fact: BOOM found that the vi...
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Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez left Spain in suspense after announcing he may step down because of what he called an “unprecedented smear campaign" against his wife. Sánchez, who has been in office since 2018, stunned the nation on Wednesday by announcing that he was cancelling all official events until next week, when he will unveil his future plans. The announcement came hours after a Madrid provincial judge agreed to study allegations of corruption brought by a right-wing group against Sánchez's wife, Begoña Gómez. What's next for Sanchez?If Sánchez resigns then it will fall to Spai...
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If there was anyone who imagined that, after kowtowing to Boris Johnson throughout his dismal premiership, leading her own dangerous and divisive culture war campaign for the Tory party leadership contest, crashing the UK economy in one afternoon, and resigning after a mere seven weeks as Prime Minister, Liz Truss would beat a quiet, shamefaced retreat from the public eye, then those people - and there can’t have been many - need to think again. Today, the shortest-serving British Prime Minister ever releases her new book, the ominously (and poorly) titled 'Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons ...
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The new center-right minority government in Portugal took office on Tuesday, soon after its parliamentary test underscored the challenges and possibilities it faces following the rise of a radical right populist party in the recent general election. Only one of the 17 ministers sworn in at a ceremony in Lisbon’sAjuda National Palace has previous top-level government experience.Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, who promised a Cabinet made up of specialists from outside the usual political circles, has not previously served in any government role. Some key members of the Cabinet have spent time in...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team An edited video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is circulating on social media with a false claim that it shows him emptying an already-empty earthen pitcher to a larger pot. BOOM found that the video is digitally altered. The original video is from October 31, 2023, featuring the prime minister participating in an event as part of the 'Meri Maati Mera Desh' campaign at Kartavya Path in New Delhi. A verified X user (formerly Twitter) @Cryptic_Miind posted the 19-second video showing visuals of PM Modi pouring the empty pitcher into a large pot. Union Minister Anurag Tha...
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By Srijit Das A photograph showing trees on an island resembling an outline of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's face is circulating widely on social media with a false claim that a French tourist took the image in Gokarna, Karnataka. BOOM found that the image was created using Stable Diffusion, a generative AI software that is capable of making images with text prompts. The viral image is circulating with a caption that claims, "This was clicked in Gokarna by a french tourist. A message to the entire planet earth from mother nature. Just zoom and see. Marvelous. The Universal Consciousness has a...
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By Srijit Das An edited video showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi walking with the heads of states at Rajghat to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi as Raghupati Raghav is played in the background is circulating with false claims that the word Allah was omitted from the bhajan. BOOM found that the video has been edited and overlaid with an audio. In the original video, the line 'Ishwar Allah Tero Naam' from the bhajan 'Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram' was played. Several heads of foreign governments, who were in New Delhi to be part of the G20 summit on September 9-10, paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on Sep...
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By Shrey Banerjee An old video showing Prime Minister of Netherlands Mark Rutte mopping the floor after he spills a cup of coffee is circulating with false claims that the incident happened at the New Delhi G20 summit. In the video, the Dutch PM can be seen walking in a lobby as he accidentally spills his cup. He instantly takes a mop from the cleaning staff and starts mopping the floor as bystanders clap for him. The video has been captioned as, "It happened in G-20 summit New Delhi 2023, The PM of Netherland had a Tea cup in his hand, fell by mistake. He didn't call volunteers to cleanup. Pl...
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