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A digitally altered photo of an elderly man with a turban is being shared falsely claiming that he does not have a moustache and is a Muslim who...

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A video of a fight between two families in Maharastra's Ahmednagar has gone viral with a communal angle that a Hindu family was beaten up by...

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A 2017 image of Jat women protesters in Rohtak, Haryana, has resurfaced with claims that it is from the ongoing farmers' protest where women from...

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A photo from August 2019 showing a group of Sikhs holding a banner calling for the restoration of Article 370 and Article 35A is being shared by...

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Old images from 2018 showing police using water cannons to disperse protesting farmers at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border has been shared by...

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Several right wing Twitter and Facebook users including Bharatiya Janata Party Delhi spokesperson, Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, shared a nearly 15-...

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An old video of late yoga guru BKS Iyengar practicing yoga is viral with a false claim that it shows a young Narendra Modi.

In the clip,...

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A clip showing a Congress leader's daughter talking to the media alleging mismanagement by election officials favoring the ruling National...

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Indian officials refuted claims of China using 'microwave weapons' at the border on Indian soldiers, after the same was reported by British daily...

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A doctored image is going viral with the false claim that Mumbai Indians' captain Rohit Sharma's picture was displayed on Burj Khalifa after his...

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An image of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan seemingly rebuffing French president Emmanuel Macron's handshake is being misleadingly shared...

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An old video of a Belgian politician, Filip Dewinter, holding the Quran and claiming that it is "the root of all evils" is circulating with Indian...

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A photo claiming Arnab Goswami was hung upside down and kicked and beaten by the Mumbai police after his arrest, is false. BOOM found that the...

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BOOM debunked the same video in 2019. The video shows a violent robbery inside an MRT lift in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Delhi Youth Congress'...

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President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden sparred over the coronavirus response, US policy on China, and race in America in...

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BOOM found that the viral photo is from February 2014 taken at a rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.A photo showing a huge crowd of people...

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BOOM found that only four photos of the revolutionary have been archived and the viral image is not one of it.
A black-and-white picture of...

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Mainstream media outlets in India along with some popular social media accounts have been abuzz with talks about 'civil war' happening in Pakistan...

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