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Nov 3, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Dhrumil Mehta |Sarah Gotfredsen |Ananya Chetia |Hazel Gandhi
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Just days ahead of the 2024 presidential election, local “news” network and progressive political campaign vehicle Courier Newsroom’s homepage featured an article outlining political ad spending in the final weeks ahead of polling day.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
boomlive.in | Hazel Gandhi
A video showing the national anthem playing during a session of the Lok Sabha is circulating with the false claim that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi missed the anthem and joined the session only after it was over. BOOM found that the claims are false, Rahul Gandhi is seen in the video from the beginning of the national anthem. The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha took place on June 24, 2024 at the new Parliament House in New Delhi.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
boomlive.in | Hazel Gandhi
ClaimA viral circular warning against individuals posing as officers of the Home Ministry and stealing information from residents of housing societies is viral online as recent. According to the circular, the thieves have stamps and letterheads of the Home Ministry, as well as biometric machines and data of residents that they use to defraud them.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
boomlive.in | Hazel Gandhi
A viral screenshot purporting to show Congress' National Spokesperson Supriya Shrinate insulting Sonia Gandhi in a 2012 tweet, is fake. BOOM found that the screenshot is fabricated and Shrinate did not make the derogatory post against Sonia Gandhi. The viral screenshot is dated April 24, 2012, and claims to show Shrinate sharing a photo of Sonia Gandhi with the caption that translates to, 'Why madam?
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
boomlive.in | Hazel Gandhi
An old video showing the police parading a group of half-naked Muslim men on the streets is viral online with a false and communal claim that they were being punished for pelting stones at Hindu houses on the occasion of Eid. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video is from 2023 and then SHO of Sadar Bazar police station, Indore, confirmed that there was no communal angle to the incident.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
boomlive.in | Hazel Gandhi
ClaimAn old image showing an injured Jain monk is viral online as recent with the false claim that he was assaulted by a group of Muslim men in Karnataka who chanted slogans of 'Congress Zindabad'. The image of the monk was shared with the text, "Muslims beat up Jain monk in Karnataka, raised slogans of Congress Zindabad, now Congress has come in its true form, Hindus who voted for Congress, Congress will continue to give you this kind of love.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
boomlive.in | Hazel Gandhi
A video showing Madhya Pradesh's former Chief Minister and Congress leader Digvijay Singh dismissing a woman trying to approach him is viral online with the false claim that she was shooed away after asking for the Rs 8,500 promised by the Congress to women of poor households during their election campaign. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video dates back to February this year and shows Digvijay Singh dismissing the woman for reasons unrelated to the Congress' election promises.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
boomlive.in | Hazel Gandhi
A video showing a man being beaten with sticks is viral online with the false claim that it shows the public flogging of Vincent Dabilgou, the former Minister of Transport of Burkina Faso. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video misidentifies the man as Dabilgou who was jailed to 11 years in prison for financial fraud in August 2023.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
boomlive.in | Hazel Gandhi
A video of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Madhavi Latha saying that Indian Muslims cannot be terrorists is viral online with the false claim that she changed her views about the community that she had previously insulted, following her defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the claims are false, Latha made the statement while campaigning for the elections and not after losing them.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
boomlive.in | Hazel Gandhi
An old video of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray calling Rahul Gandhi nalayak (useless) and saying that he should be beaten up is viral online as a recent video. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video is from 2019 before Thackeray and Gandhi became allies following the formation of the INDIA bloc.
