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BOOM found that the viral video is from an Afghan TV channel – 1TV Kabul. An old video of a fight between two panelists during an Afghan TV channel debate is being shared with the false claim that they are Congress and BJP panelists who came to blows in Manipur on live TV. Clashes between…
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A fake quote is being attributed to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claiming that during a courtroom exchange in a Delhi Court, he questioned Additional Solicitor General Suryaprakash V Raju, sarcastically asking him whether he would arrest Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah if he merely stated he paid them Rs 100…
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New Delhi: India’s IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw today said that it is essential for the government to set up its own fact-checking unit because it is the best suited to combat misinformation about welfare policies and other schemes. His remarks come just days after the Supreme Court halted the government’s move to establish its own…
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“You are more microbes than human.” It is possible you have had this factoid thrown at you, with the thrower claiming that the microbes in our bodies outnumber our own cells 10 to one. But according to an assessment published in Nature Microbiology, this is a myth. In a 2016 study the assessment’s authors cited,…
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