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  Fake Claims Promising Free ₹5,000 Lockdown Funds Viral On WhatsApp

  boomlive.in - Mohammed Kudrati

  BOOM found that a website promising free ₹5,000 lockdown funds as a limited time offer is fake

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  Social Distancing

  2019 Video Passed Off As Violation Of Social Distancing Rules In Saudi Arabia

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  BOOM traced the original video to December 2019 and found that the claims were unrelated to lockdown or social distancing

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  Mamata Banerjee

  Clipped Video Claims Mamata Banerjee Did Not Greet PM Modi During Amphan Survey

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  BOOM found the longer video where Mamata Banerjee can be seen greeting the prime minister who was in West Bengal to survey the devastation caused by …

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  Mamata Banerjee

  Clipped Video Falsely Claims Mamata Banerjee Did Not Greet PM Modi

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  BOOM found the longer video where Mamata Banerjee can be seen greeting the prime minister

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  Dentistry

  Need To Meet A Dentist? Steps To Take During COVID-19

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  COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we access healthcare, and dentistry might be very different in the future

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  Unnao

  Unnao Rape Case: Kuldeep Singh Sengar Has Not Been Granted Bail

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  BOOM found out that a Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has granted bail to the rape victim's uncle on May 22

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  Unnao

  No, Unnao Rape Accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar Has Not Been Granted Bail

  boomlive.in - Sumit Usha

  BOOM found out that a Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has granted bail to the rape victim's uncle on May 22

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  Modi

  Video Of PM Modi's Visit To Cyclone-Hit WB Edited With 'Chowkidar Chor Hai'

  boomlive.in - Anmol Alphonso

  BOOM was able to trace the original video of 50 seconds, where chants of Jai Shri Ram slogans can be heard

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  Flu

  False Posts Claim US Recorded No Flu Deaths During COVID-19 Crisis

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  Social media posts falsely claim that the USA has not recorded a single death due to flu during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  Aviation Safety

  Does This Video Show Final Moments Before Pak Plane Crash?

  boomlive.in - Anmol Alphonso

  BOOM found that the viral CCTV clip is from a bus accident in September 2019.

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  Cricket

  No, Cricketer Yasir Shah Did Not Die In Pakistan Plane Crash

  boomlive.in - Dilip Unnikrishnan

  BOOM reached out to Pakistan Cricket Board who said Yasir Shah was safe and called the posts baseless rumours.

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  Coronavirus (Covid-19)

  How Doctors Are Dealing With New COVID-19 Symptoms

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  How doctors in Mumbai are coping with the increase in numbers of COVID-19 cases and the new symptoms to watch out for

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  Coronavirus (Covid-19)

  Will The COVID-19 Stimulus Package Create More Jobs?

  boomlive.in - BOOM

  India’s unemployment looms at 24%. Will the COVID-19 economic stimulus package create more jobs in the Indian market?

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  Bribery

  No, WHO Did Not Offer Bribe To Poison Madagascan COVID-19 Remedy

  boomlive.in - AFP

  Social media posts falsely claim that President Andry Rajoelina has accused WHO of offering a bribe to poison a COVID-19 remedy.

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  Polio

  Did Bill Gates-backed Polio Vaccine Paralyse Children In India?

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  The post falsely claims that a polio vaccine backed by Bill Gates paralysed 490,000 children in India.

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  Nigeria

  Did Nigeria Impose A Curfew To Set Up 5G Network? A Fact Check

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  Vaccination

  False Information About Vaccines For Babies Viral On Social Media

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  Social media posts are spreading false information about vaccines administered to babies.

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  Freediver Stig Severinsen's Video On Masks Contains Misleading Claims

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  Experts have said the claims made by freediver Stig Severinsen in the video are misleading.

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  Coronavirus (Covid-19)

  No, The Coronavirus Was Not Created By China & USA To Kill Africans

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  Social media posts falsely claim that French scientist Didier Raoult said the coronavirus was created to kill Africans.

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  Republic TV, Times Now, ABP News Run Old Video As Pak Ceasefire Violation

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  BOOM found that the 'exclusive' video reported by Republic TV, Times Now, and ABP News this week dates back to February 2019.

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  Public Health

  Doubling Healthcare Spending Will Not Fix System: Dr Arvind Vermani

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  In an interview with BOOM, Dr Vermani said that public health education is important in fighting any pandemic.

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  Cyclone Amphan

  Video From Cyclone Fani Peddled As Destruction By Cyclone Amphan

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  BOOM found that the video is from May 2019, when Cyclone Fani hit Odisha.

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  COVID-19 Easier ToTransmit Through Human Contact Than Surfaces: CDC

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  The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says that person-to-person transmission is the primary way COVID-19 spreads.

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  East India

  Video Of Two Men Rejecting Food At Bihar Quarantine Given Communal Spin

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  An offiicial at Bihar's Saharghat Police confirmed to BOOM that the men shown in the video were not Muslims as claimed by viral Facebook posts.

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  Kawasaki

  Are Babies Contracting Kawasaki Disease During The COVID-19 Pandemic?

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  The misleading claim showed that one of the two viral photos being circulated from Facebook was from WebMD.

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  RBI Says Growth To Be Negative; Extends Moratorium By 3 Months

  boomlive.in - Mohammed Kudrati

  Here's all you need to know about the third press interaction by the RBI governor during the lockdown

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  Hinduism

  Video Of Hindu Ritual Shared With False Coronavirus Claim

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  The video being shared is of a ritual observed by Hindus during the Ganesh Chathurthi festival.

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  Migrant Workers

  Are Migrants Ignored For Failing To Be A Key Vote Bank?

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  As India crosses more than 60 days in lockdown, one of the biggest challenges that the country has faced is the treatment of its migrant labourers. …

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  Fact Checking

  Video Of Eid Shopping At Mumbai or Pakistan? A FactCheck

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  The video was earlier viral as social distancing norms flouted in Hyderabad.

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  Bill Gates

  Does Australian $10 Note Feature Images Of Coronavirus & Bill Gates?

  boomlive.in - AFP

  Posts falsely claim that images of the novel coronavirus and Bill Gates.