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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A viral video claims that the Electronic Voting Machines counted 12,87,000 votes when only 11 lakh people voted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2024 Lok Sabha constituency. Fact: BOOM found that the video is false. We also found that the video went viral just before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in April, and the Election Commission of India (ECI) had refuted the claim on April 7, 2024. Tools used: The ECI called out the viral video and stated that it's from 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The total number of electors in Varanasi during the 2019 elections was 18,56,79...
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By The Conversation Vandinika Shukla, Harvard Kennedy School and Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy SchoolAs India concluded the world’s largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions used artificial intelligence technologies – and what lessons that holds for the rest of the world. The campaigns made extensive use of AI, including deepfake impersonations of candidates, celebrities and dead politicians. By some estimates, millions of Indian voters viewed deepfakes. But, despite fears of widespread disinformation, f...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video showing Muslim women in Uttar Pradesh is viral online with the claim that the women were waiting to avail their promised sum of Rs 8,500 under the Congress' Mahalaxmi scheme. Fact: BOOM found that the video dates back to 2020 and was taken in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, where beneficiaries of the Jan Dhan scheme were waiting to withdraw their money. Tools used: We had previously debunked this video in May 2021 when it was being circulated with the false communal claim that Muslim women were waiting to hoard free ration distributed by the government. We ...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: Social media posts claiming that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), won 165 seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election with a victory margin fewer than 2,000 votes, are viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the claims made in the viral message are false. The same post was viral in 2022 after the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections which BOOM had debunked back then. Tools used: As per the Election Commission of India's website, the lowest victory margin for the BJP is not below 1,587 votes in the 2024 elections. Even for the 2022 UP elections, BJP won 11 seats w...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video of Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai struggling to hold back tears during a speech is being shared online claiming that it shows him crying after losing in the Coimbatore constituency and witnessing the party's poor results in the southern state. Fact: BOOM found that the video is unrelated to the Lok Sabha results announced on June 4, 2024. The footage is from April 2024, when Annamalai became emotional during a speech at an old age home. Tools used: BOOM ran a related keyword search on X and found the same footage was uploaded on News 18 Tamil Nadu's...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video showing Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar meeting with leaders of the INDIA bloc is viral as a meeting that took place after the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. Fact: BOOM found that the viral video is from April 2023, when Kumar's JD(U) was part of the INDIA bloc. Kumar left the INDIA bloc to join the National Democratic Alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in January 2024. Tools used: Looking through the posts on X, BOOM found many users suggesting that the video is old, and shows a meeting that took place while Kumar was with the IND...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: Social media posts claiming the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won 30 seats with a margin of less than 500 votes and won more than 100 seats with a margin of less than 1000 votes, are viral online. Fact: BOOM analysed data published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and found that the lowest victory margin for a seat won by the BJP is 1587 votes, thus rendering the claim false. Tools used: BOOM found that the lowest victory margin was not below 1587 votes. The three Lok Sabha seats where the BJP secured the narrowest victory margins were - 1) Jajpur (Odisha)...
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By Nidhi Jacob An old video alleging that the total votes counted by Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the Varanasi constituency during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections exceeded the total votes polled is being misrepresented on social media platforms as footage from the recent 2024 elections. BOOM found that the video is false. We also found that the video went viral just before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in April, and the Election Commission of India had refuted the claim on April 7, 2024. The video claims that in the Varanasi constituency where Prime Minister Narendra Modi was running, 11 l...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video showing Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supporters setting fire to a photo of N Chandrababu Naidu, the party leader, is viral online claiming that it shows the people of Andhra Pradesh protesting against Naidu for forming a government with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) following the Lok Sabha elections. Fact: BOOM found that the video is from March 2024 and was taken before the Lok Sabha elections began. It shows TDP supporters vandalising the party office over strong dissatisfaction over the selection of candidates for the assembly elections, and has nothing...
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By Anmol Alphonso Viral social media posts claiming the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won 30 seats with a margin of less than 500 votes and won more than 100 seats with a margin of less than 1000 votes, are false. BOOM analysed data published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and found that the lowest victory margin for a seat won by the BJP is 1587 votes, thus rendering the claim false. The BJP on its own won 240 seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, and including its allies in the NDA (National Democratic Alliance), the coalition crossed the 272 seats mark required to fo...
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