Riot Video From Bangladesh Passed Off As West Bengal | BOOM

 Viral post claims the video show Muslims chasing Hindus out of West Bengal. The original video, from December 2018, is from BangladeshRead more at ...... Read More
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Was A TMC Worker Caught Pelting Stones In Kolkata Wearing A Saffron T-Shirt? | | BOOM

 The video has been projected as 'TMC goons', involved in the violence that ensued following BJP President Amit Shah's road show in Kolkata on May 14. However, the video is from Jamshedpur and not Kolkata.Read more at ...... Read More
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Old Video Of Amit Shah Slipping Down From Vehicle Shared As West Bengal

 The incident is from 2018 when Amit Shah was campaigning in Madhya Pradesh for the state's Assembly elections.Read more at ...... Read More
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Hindu beaten in Bengal for hoisting saffron flag? Old video from UP shared with false claim - Alt News

 The claim that a Hindu youth was beaten in West Bengal for hoisting a saffron flag atop his house is viral across social media platforms. A video of a young man tied to a tree and thrashed by a group of people is shared to support this narrative widely circulated with the …Read more at ...... Read More
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India Today clarifies: Screenshot showing 177 seats for NDA is dummy data - Alt News

 “Did Indiatoday showcase the Exit Poll Numbers by mistake If so, future looks bleak for BJP.” tweeted a user with a screenshot of a India Today broadcast. It was suggested that the channel may have mistakenly displayed the data of their exit polls, which has supposedly predicted 177 seats for the …...... Read More
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Did IIT Varanasi students ditch black gowns in favour of traditional attire at convocation? - Alt News

 “Students from IIT Varanasi & other Universities discarded traditional European black gown cap and chose truly Indian attire for the Convocation Ceremony”, reads the text inscribed above an image which has been shared more than 46,000 times on Facebook. A photo of students dressed in traditional attire was shar...... Read More
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This Picture Of Donald Trump Endorsing PM Modi Is A Bigger Hoax Than Climate Change

 This picture is from 2015, and has also been exploited by Nigerian social media to show him falsely endorsing a candidate during their presidential election early this yearRead more at ...... Read More
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweets clipped video to portray gaffe by Rahul Gandhi in poll speech - Alt News

 ! , , ! (Arre what is this Rahul ji, if only in speeches, eventually …Read more at ...... Read More
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Was A Youth Beaten For Hoisting A Saffron Flag In West Bengal? A FactCheck | | BOOM

 This is a video from Deoria, Uttar Pradesh in March 2018 of an unrelated incident.Read more at BOOMLIVE.IN...... Read More
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Amul Ad Targeting Gandhis? No, It's Utterly Butterly Fake | BOOM

 BOOM found that the original cartoon welcomed Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's foray into politics.Read more at BOOMLIVE.IN...... Read More
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A fact-check of claims made by BJP about Vidyasagar college violence - Alt News

 In the morning of May 15, BJP’s national IT cell in-charge, Amit Malviya tweeted an alleged ‘first-person’ account of a student of Vidyasagar College about the violence that erupted in the campus during BJP Chief Amit Shah’s rally. “He recounts how TMC hooligans orchestrated vandalisation...... Read More
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Unverified video of unknown persons shared by media organisations as gun-toting 'TMC goons' from Purulia - Alt News

 On May 12, visuals of masked men, who were seen brandishing guns and heard speaking to a man behind the camera, were relayed by several mainstream media outlets. It was claimed that the visuals of gun-toting men were from Purulia district in West Bengal. Some of the outlets even went a step …Read more at ...... Read More
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Did Rajiv Gandhi Use A Digital Camera In 1983? A FactCheck | BOOM

 BOOM found that the camera that Rajiv Gandhi held was not a digital camera.Read more at BOOMLIVE.IN...... Read More
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Was Navjot Singh Sidhu Slapped By A Woman? No, It Is Real Bad Photoshop

 The image is a composite of two separate and unrelated images.Read more at BOOMLIVE.IN...... Read More
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No, author of TIME's cover story on PM Modi is not a citizen of Pakistan - Alt News

 Time magazine’s cover story ‘India’s divider-in-chief’ was mooted on social media this week. A sharp critique of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the article, written by journalist and author Aatish Taseer was much discussed with regard to the author’s nationality rather than the contents of the pie...... Read More
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Photoshopped: Narendra Modi and Indira Gandhi in a group photograph - Alt News

 A black-and-white image featuring former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, with PM Narendra Modi seen in the frame, has been circulating on messaging platforms. In the photo, PM Modi is seen standing in the background, with Indira Gandhi in the foreground. The image has been shared with a message in Gujarati which say...... Read More
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