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By Archis Chowdhury The Bharatiya Janata Party made the biggest political advertisement expenditure in a single month till date in May 2024, pumping in over ₹17 crore on Meta ads and ₹56 crore on Google ads, right in the middle of the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. Odisha's Biju Janata Dal came second, albeit far behind BJP, putting in ₹16.9 crore on Google ads and ₹9.8 crore on Meta ads. The Congress party trailed closely behind, spending a little over ₹18 crore on Google ads, and ₹4.2 crore on Meta ads. The results of the 18th Lok Sabha elections turned out to be a shocker, with the...
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By Archis Chowdhury During an interview with News18's Rubika Liyaquat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that he did not mention 'Muslims', while speaking of 'infiltrators' and 'those with more children' in one of his speeches during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. He further adds, "The day I do 'Hindu-Muslim' I will not be eligible to stay in public life." BOOM accessed the speech Modi gave in Rajasthan's Banswara on April 21, 2024, and found that he did clearly refer to Muslims, while misquoting a comment by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He then immediately goes on to state that ...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: An ad apparently for CEAT tyres with an anti-Modi tagline asking people to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the centre is viral. Fact: BOOM found that the viral ad is an edited version and the original ad by CEAT tyres dates back to June 2017. It is unrelated to the ongoing Lok Sabha polls and does not carry any anti-Modi tagline as suggested in the viral claim. Tools used: Taking a clue from the 'Paise Bachane Hai? (Want to save money?)' tagline, we ran a search for the advertisement on Google. This led us to a YouTube video ...
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By Archis Chowdhury An edited video of Home Minister Amit Shah went viral recently, falsely showing him promising an end to reservations for Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes. While BOOM's fact-check found that the video was doctored using video editing tools, it was falsely labelled as a 'deepfake' by other Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, and various mainstream media outlets. Political parties in India are experimenting with AI in myriad ways this election season. For instance, AI voice clones of politicians are being used to craft cadre and voter outreach message...
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By Archis Chowdhury A fake newspaper clipping of Dainik Bhaskar is viral on social media with the claim that it shows the results of joint survey by Dainik Bhaskar and Nelson predicting a victory for the INDIA alliance in ten states. BOOM found that the viral clipping is fabricated, and does not correspond to the real publication. Dainik Bhaskar's national editor LP Pant further confirmed the same to BOOM and rubbished the viral clipping as fake. Also Read:Unrelated Video Falsely Linked To Congress-DMK Rally In Coimbatore The survey showed the INDIA alliance being ahead of the BJP-led NDA in M...
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By Archis Chowdhury In March, just the month before the official commencement of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Facebook saw a massive surrogate ad campaign with over ₹3.7 crore being spent on ads on obscure pages that targeted the opponents of the ruling-Bharatiya Janata Party. BOOM also found the official page of MyGovIndia - a digital platform under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology - sponsoring ads to the tune of over ₹1.4 crore to promote the recently held National Creators Award, where the award winners were exclusively pro-BJP influencers. Overall, political advertis...
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By Nidhi Jacob Viral social media posts have falsely claimed that intelligence agencies like the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted surveys indicating a decline in support for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). BOOM spoke to an official government source who informed that the NIA does not engage in conducting political surveys whatsoever. The claim was also posted by a member of the Indian National Congress. The claim lists out several key findings from these surveys, including reduced support for Modi's image, diminishing appeal of the Ram Mandir issue, and growing opposition from y...
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By Archis Chowdhury With general elections a little over a month away, the Bharatiya Janata Party is pumping in vast amounts of money on social media advertisements. In the month of February, the ruling party spent over ₹5.5 crore on its official Facebook page, and over a whopping ₹29 crore on Google ads. Odisha's Biju Janata Dal's official Facebook page was the second in the list of top spending pages, promoting ads to the tune of over ₹97 lakh. Furthermore, a shadowy network of obscure pages called Ulta Chashma and Political X-ray spent over ₹67 lakh and ₹50 lakh respectively. Also Read:Shad...
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By Archis Chowdhury Viral social media posts claiming the new Ram Janmabhoomi Temple in Ayodhya is being built 3 km away from the location of the Babri Masjid, are false. Due to the controversy surrounding the destruction of the mosque to build the temple, the claim caused an uproar among online users. BOOM spoke to reporters who had recently visited the temple complex being constructed, who confirmed to us that the temple is being built directly above the ruins. We also spoke to a local resident Nand Kumar, who heads the Ayodhya Beopar Mandal, who also rubbished the claim of the temple being ...
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By Archis Chowdhury "During the Rajasthan Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to face opposition from the people, and he was not even allowed to deliver his speech. Same was the situation with Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani." The above claims are entirely false, but were presented as facts on a Facebook page named Nation TV. With more than 15000 followers and nearly 2000 likes, this page has been rampantly sharing videos with false or misleading claims, in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party, and in support of Congress. Registered as a 'News and M...
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