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#BOOMFactCheck | Social media posts claiming Dubai's Al Minhad district has been renamed to 'Hind City' as an acknowledgment of India and the contribution of Hindus to humanity, are false and misleading.
#Dubai
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/politics/fact-check-viral-news-dubai-al-minhad-hind-city-renamed-sheikh-mohammed-bin-rashid-india-hindus-hindustan-prime-minister-narendra-modi-20902?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675175552 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the incident in the viral video is from June 2021 when two tribal women were beaten up by their relatives for talking to their cousins on the phone
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/politics/fake-news-viral-video-2021-woman-being-beaten-relatives-madhya-pradesh-dhar-district-misleading-communal-claim-factcheck-20900?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675172802 -
#BOOMFactCheck | An old video of a huge crowd inside a shopping mall in Kochi is circulating on social media with a false claim that it shows film enthusiasts outside a multiplex in Bihar, waiting to watch #ShahRukhKhan’s latest release #Pathaan.
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#BOOMFactCheck | Dubai government's media office told BOOM that the renaming of an area in Dubai as Hind City does not reference any country.
#Dubai
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/politics/fact-check-viral-news-dubai-al-minhad-hind-city-renamed-sheikh-mohammed-bin-rashid-india-hindus-hindustan-prime-minister-narendra-modi-20902?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675162396 -
#BOOMFactCheck | An old video of a young woman being beaten by a group of men in Dhar district, #MadhyaPradesh is being shared with a false claim that it shows a Dalit girl being beaten up by Hindutva extremists
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#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the placard in the photo is edited and that the original poster was about MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar.
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#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found the message conflates two different funds - Army Welfare Battle Casualty Fund, and another one called 'Bharat Ke Veer', which indeed did involve #AkshayKumar.
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#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the placard in the photo is edited and that the original poster was about MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar.
#INDvsNZ
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/fact-check-viral-photo-cricket-indian-fan-supports-babar-azam-pakistan-india-newzealand-ranchi-20874?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675085734 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found the viral message to be misleading. While #AkshayKumar did in fact promote a Home Ministry fund called 'Bharat Ke Veer', we found no reported instance of him promoting the Army Welfare Battle Casualty Fund
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#BOOMFactCheck | A viral photo purporting to show an Indian cricket fan holding a placard supporting Pakistani captain Babar Azam over #ViratKohli, during the recent India Vs New Zealand T20 match, is morphed and fake.
#INDvsNZ
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/fact-check-viral-photo-cricket-indian-fan-supports-babar-azam-pakistan-india-newzealand-ranchi-20874?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675067518 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM was able to confirm that the flag seen in the viral video is an Islamic flag and not a Pakistan flag as claimed by news outlets.
#RepublicDay
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/fact-check-pakistan-flag-pakistani-india-republic-day-bihar-purnia-20847?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675064401 -
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#BOOMFactCheck | A video of a crowd protesting outside the BBC Broadcasting House, in London, is being shared with the false claim that the demonstration is against the BBC's latest documentary, 'India: The Modi Question'.
#BBCdocumentry
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/bbc-documentary-narendra-modi-london-bbc-broadcasting-protest-anti-vaccine-20860 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the video was uploaded by a TikTok user on December 12, 2022, and shows a huge crowd during the FIFA World Cup in one of Qatar’s metro stations.
#Pathaan #FIFAWorldCup
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/entertainment/uae-huge-crowd-pathaan-srk-fans-qatar-lusail-old-video-fifa-world-cup-2022-20862?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674997623 -
#BOOMFactCheck | A video of a crowd protesting outside the BBC Broadcasting House in London, is being shared with the false claim that the demonstration is against the BBC's latest documentary, 'India: The Modi Question'.
#BBCDocumentary #BBC
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/bbc-documentary-narendra-modi-london-bbc-broadcasting-protest-anti-vaccine-20860?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674997522 -
#BOOMFactCheck | An old image of Bollywood star #ShahRukhKhan taking a selfie with Mukesh Ambani and his family members has been shared with a false claim that it was clicked after the Ambani family watched SRK’s latest release #Pathaan
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#BOOMFactCheck | An old video of a crowd at Lusail metro station in Doha during one of the matches of the #FIFAWorldCup2022 is circulating with false claims that it shows a sea of spectators pouring in to watch #Pathaan in UAE on the day of its release
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#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the protest was organised by an anti-vax group called 'Truth Be Told', and had nothing to do with BBC's latest documentary 'India: The Modi Question'
#BBCDocumentary #BBC
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/bbc-documentary-narendra-modi-london-bbc-broadcasting-protest-anti-vaccine-20860?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674975594 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the man in the photo is UK MP Jeremy Corbyn, not the producer of the #BBCdocumentary on Narendra Modi.
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BOOM was able to confirm that the flag seen in the viral video is an Islamic flag and not a Pakistan flag as claimed by news outlets.
#RepublicDay #BOOMFactCheck #Bihar
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/fact-check-pakistan-flag-pakistani-india-republic-day-bihar-purnia-20847 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the image was clicked in December 2015 when Reliance Jio was launched.
#PathaanMovie #ShahRukhKhan𓀠
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/entertainment/mukesh-ambani-pathaan-shah-rukh-khan-opening-week-screening-selfie-20855 -
#BOOMFactCheck | A photo of Rahul Gandhi with UK's former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn is being shared with a false claim that Gandhi was photographed with the producer of the #BBCDocumentary 'India: The Modi Question'
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/rahul-gandhi-bbc-documentary-india-the-modi-question-bjp-jeremy-corbyn-20845?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674879789-1 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM was able to confirm that the flag seen in the viral video is an Islamic flag and not a Pakistan flag as claimed by news outlets.
#RepublicDay
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/fact-check-pakistan-flag-pakistani-india-republic-day-bihar-purnia-20847?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674827297 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the man in the photo is UK MP Jeremy Corbyn, not the producer of the BBC documentary on Narendra Modi
#BBCDocumentary
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/rahul-gandhi-bbc-documentary-india-the-modi-question-bjp-jeremy-corbyn-20845?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674827225 -
#BOOMFactCheck | Several news outlets misreported that a Pakistan flag was hoisted atop a house in #Bihar's Purnia on the occasion of #RepublicDay.
BOOM was able to confirm that the flag was not Pakistan's national flag but an Islamic religious flag
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#Thread 🚨 | This week, BOOM published a total of 15 fact checks. The most prevalent nature of claims happens to be both Entertainment (28%), with Political claims coming second at 22%. (1/n)
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#Replug | A video of Union Finance Minister #NirmalaSitharaman meeting an elderly man is circulating on social media with false claims misidentifying him as Sitharaman's father, Narayanan Sitharaman.
#BOOMFactCheck
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/sports/narayanan-sitharaman-father-nirmala-sitharaman-viral-video-kv-krishnan-great-nephew-mahakavi-subramania-bharathiyar-varanasi-20700 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the man in the photo is UK MP Jeremy Corbyn, not the producer of the BBC documentary on Narendra Modi.
#BBCDocumentary #NarendraModi
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/rahul-gandhi-bbc-documentary-india-the-modi-question-bjp-jeremy-corbyn-20845 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the video is from 2021, when BJP MP Brijbhushan Sharan Singh slapped a wrestler at a stadium in Ranchi.
#BrijbhushanSharanSingh #BJP
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/brijbhushan-sharan-singh-bjp-mp-wfi-president-slaps-wrestler-sexual-harassment-20823?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674802466 -
#BOOMFactCheck | BOOM found that the viral video is from 2018 showing moviegoers criticising the Bollywood movie 'Zero' which starred Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma.
#ShahRukhKhan𓀠 #Pathaan
https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/entertainment/fake-news-pathaan-movie-shah-rukh-khan-srk-worst-movie-women-video-of-2018-movie-zero-review-factcheck-20836