Tag: fact-check

Did Congress Workers Interrupt Uddhav Thackeray’s Speech?

May 2, 2024 admin

The video doesn’t show Congress workers interrupting Mr Thackeray’s speech (Source: Facebook/Screenshot) A video is circulating on social media along with a claim that it shows Congress has insulted Uddhav Thackeray. The video appears to show Uddhav Thackeray being interrupted while speaking on stage. The accompanying text alleges that Congress workers from Wardha obstructed Uddhav…

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Did Shah Rukh Khan Participate In Congress Poll Rally? A Fact Check

April 27, 2024 admin

A video is going viral on social media claiming that Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan participated in the Congress party’s election campaign rally. The video shows a Shah Rukh Khan lookalike standing with Congress workers in an open vehicle with posters of Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders. The video was also shared by Congress’s…

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Kangana Ranaut Falsely Claims She Got BJP Ticket Due To Women’s Quota Bill

April 7, 2024 admin

BOOM found that the claim was false since the bill has not been brought into effect yet. In a recent public address, actor Kangana Ranaut claimed that she received the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ticket to contest elections from the Mandi constituency in Himachal Pradesh because of the Women’s Reservation Bill. BOOM found that the…

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Congress-BJP Fight In Manipur? No, It’s A Video Of Afghan TV Panel Clash

April 6, 2024 admin

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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Viral Post Claiming Arvind Kejriwal’s “Savage” Reply Is Fake

March 30, 2024 admin

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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“Centre Best Suited To Answer On Its Policies”: Minister Defends Fact-Check Unit

March 23, 2024 admin

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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Are you sure you contain 10x as many microbes as human cells?

August 28, 2023 admin

“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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