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By Titha Ghosh If you're on social media, you'll likely have seen the “All Eyes on Rafah” image all across your feed. "All eyes on Rafah", the text on the image reads, atop a field of refugee tents neatly stretching into the distance, nestled between a hill range and cloudy skies. However, the image is not from Rafah in Gaza, and it surfaced after an Israeli strike on a tent encampment for displaced people in Rafah, killing 45 people and eliciting worldwide outrage. This "All eyes on Rafah" image that has been shared more than 47 million times on Instagram, experts agree is AI-generated. It ha...
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By Nidhi Jacob BOOM's analysis of all debunked fact-checks in 2023 revealed that Muslims continued to be the primary target of mis/disinformation, mirroring the trend from the previous year. Muslims have consistently emerged as the primary targets of fake news since 2021, per our analysis of the reports from the past two years. Between January 2 and December 31, 2023, BOOM published 1,190 fact-checks, in English, Hindi and Bangla (this figure excludes the translated stories in Hindi and Bangla from English). Of these, 15.4% or 183 fact-checks were claims targeting the Muslim community. Among c...
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By Ritika Jain Israel told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – the United Nations' (UN) top court, that South Africa “grossly distorted” the story of genocide against the Palestinians while defending its military actions in Gaza. “If there were acts of genocide, it has been perpetrated against Israel,” Becker, the legal advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said. The ICJ—the UN's judicial arm—was hearing South Africa’s case against Israeli actions in Gaza. South Africa on January 11 said Israel had “genocidal intent” against the Palestinians living in Gaza. The hearing com...
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By The Conversation Donald Rothwell, Australian National UniversitySouth Africa has taken Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ, also known as the World Court) in The Hague claiming genocide has been committed against Palestinians during the Gaza conflict. A charge of genocide before the court in the midst of a heated armed conflict is exceptional. Likewise, the significance of South Africa’s claim against Israel has immense cultural, diplomatic, historical, and political significance. Israel has rejected South Africa’s claim and vowed to contest the case against it. International ...
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By Ritika Jain South Africa on December 28, 2023, moved United Nations top court - The International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of committing genocide on Palestine. Pretoria's plea for an urgent hearing seeking interim measures for relief in Gaza begins today. The hearing before the United Nations’ top court is significant amid the rising death toll in the Israel-Palestine war. Parallelly, South Africa also moved the International Criminal Court (ICC) urging it to probe Israel for “war crimes”. The Israeli Defense Force said its war was against Hamas and not the people of Gaza ahe...
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By Swasti Chatterjee The year 2023 has been a remarkable year for India with the country launching its first successful lunar mission and hosting the G-20 Summit with guests descending in New Delhi from across the world. The year also witnessed a prolonged ethnic clash in the North East state of Manipur that claimed more than 180 lives and displaced thousands and a horrific triple train accident in Odisha. Internationally, the Israel-Hamas conflict and the rift in the Indo-Canadian relationship impacted the Indian news cycle massively. Among the major events of 2023, what remained constant was...
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By Archis Chowdhury The current spate of violence between Israel and Palestine precipitated one of the biggest fake news cycles in recent times, often marked by disturbing images and videos of graphic violence. BOOM fact-checked 100 false claims between October 7 to December 22, 2023, out of which 24 were found to be made with unrelated graphic videos and images, showing anything between scenes of beheading of children, to execution of prisoners, and falsely linking them to the violence. Remarkably, verified users on X (formerly Twitter), mostly from India, were found to consistently lead the ...
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By Archis Chowdhury An image of Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber holding the flag of Israel is being shared online to highlight his support for Israel in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. BOOM found this post to be misleading; according to our fact-check, the image has been edited to falsely show Bieber with the flag of Israel. In the original image, he can be seen holding the Brazilian flag instead. Following Israel's offensive bombardment of Gaza, in retaliation to the October 7 attack by Hamas that led to the loss of 1,200 Israeli lives, Justin Bieber erroneously posted an image of ...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar For more than a month now, a team of five fact checkers in a small office in occupied West Bank has been working 24x7 debunking hundreds of fake claims being shared about the Israel-Palestine war. “Determination, pride and anger” is what is driving them, says Riham AbuAita, co-founder, Kashif Fact Check even as the team ensures they and their loved ones remain safe. AbuAita explains that their work, is no longer about debunking fake news connected to Palestine but has become so much more. “It is about reclaiming the constant dehumanising of Palestinians that so many o...
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