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By Srijit Das A collage of two images of a woman attacked by a mob and a video documenting the attack has been circulating on WhatsApp and Facebook in several parts of West Bengal with false claims that she abducted six children from Barasat, a city in North 24 Parganas district. BOOM reached out to Barasat Superintendent of Police Pratiksha Jharkhariya who confirmed that the woman in the photograph, identified as Parbati Das is innocent. Jharkhariya further told BOOM that the woman was a victim of a rumour spread by a murder suspect - that she kidnapped children in Barasat, which then led to ...
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By Srijit Das A viral video showing visuals of cattle slaughter inside a residential complex in Bangladesh is being shared by Indian social media users falsely claiming that it captures Bakrid celebrations this year in West Bengal. BOOM found that the footage is old and from Bangladesh. The video was recorded in Mirpur, Dhaka, not in West Bengal as is being falsely claimed online. The one minute and 21-seconds video shows a top angle view of a residential complex where several people are standing with umbrellas in a brick-red courtyard and carcasses of cattle can be seen lying around. The clip...
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By Srijit Das An old video of a bike rally in Odisha turning violent is being peddled with a false and communal claim that it shows an attack on Hindutva supporters for carrying out a bike rally with saffron flags in West Bengal. BOOM found that the video is from 2023 when a clash took place in Odisha's Sambalpur district during Hanuman Jayanti celebrations. The 21-second footage shows several motorcycles fitted with saffron flags parked along a road, with a few individuals seen hurling stones at each other. A verified X handle, @Sudhir_mish, shared the video with a Hindi caption that reads, "...
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By Dipanjan Sinha Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in politics is an ethical debate that the entire intellectual spectrum is unsure of. But in an unexpected turn of events, the Bengal branch of the CPI (M)- The Communist Party of India (Marxist)- often accused of being opposed to computers in the 90s, stepped ahead of others a few weeks ago with an AI generated presenter, Samata. In two episodes that are out now, the avatar, a sari-clad woman, reads out the party’s perspective on recent events in West Bengal in English. The first episode out on March 27 was about the collapse of a building ...
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By Srijit Das An old video showing a group of people attacking Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters is being shared on social media with a false claim that it shows people in Dwarka, Gujarat thrashing those who were campaigning in support of the BJP ahead of the impending Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the video is old and not from Gujarat. The videos shows an incident that took place in West Bengal's Hooghly where Trinamool Congress MLA Asit Majumdar and his aides clashed with the BJP supporters during a rally in Chinsurah in 2022. A clash two place between two BJP groups in Amreli, ...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sujata Mondal being chased with lathis by a group of people in the middle of a field is being shared with the misleading claim that it is a recent incident of people chasing her away in Arambagh, West Bengal. BOOM found that the viral video is from April 2021 when Mondal was chased out of a polling booth in the third phase of the assembly election in the state. Mondal had then alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was creating chaos and threatening TMC supporters in Arambagh amid the voting, which the BJP had denied. In ...
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By Srijit Das A set of two photographs is circulating on social media with a false claim that it shows West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has faked her crown injury. In one of the photos circulated online, Banerjee can be seen lying on a bed, blood trickling from the center of her forehead. The other image shows her delivering a speech, holding a microphone, with an adhesive bandage visible on the left side of her forehead. BOOM found that the image of Banerjee with an adhesive bandage on the left side of her forehead dates back to January this year when she sustained an injury in a ca...
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By Srijit Das An old video of a group of people attacking journalists in a car has now surfaced on social media with a false claim that it shows a recent attack on a female journalist, in an attempt to obstruct her from reporting in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali. BOOM found that that the video shows journalists from the Bengali news outlet 24 Ghanta being attacked while covering the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections in Keshpur, West Bengal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently hit out at the West Bengal government, addressing the allegations of sexual assault incidents involving the Trinamool ...
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