5+ hour, 53+ min ago  (314+ words) A video claiming to show a Pakistani panelist mocking Abp News anchor Chitra Tripathi in a news debate and making sexist remarks about her appearance is edited and does not depict a real exchange during the broadcast. BOOM found that…...

8+ hour, 47+ min ago  (305+ words) A video of an Indian news anchor appearing to lose his temper on air over Pakistan's role in brokering a ceasefire between the United States and Iran is being shared on social media, particularly by pro-Pakistan handles. BOOM found that…...

9+ hour, 6+ min ago  (383+ words) A deepfake of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor appearing to show him praising Pakistan for stepping in to end the ongoing US-Iran war and criticising the Indian government over a "strategic failure" has surfaced online. BOOM found the original interview of…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (863+ words) As Assam heads into polling on April 9, the election is being fought as much on screens as on the ground. None of it is real. But all of it is shaping what voters see. A new report by the Netherlands-based…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (380+ words) On International Fact-Checking Day 2026, BOOM hosted a webinar to discuss how the existence of deepfakes has become so normalised that any real event can be dismissed as synthetic. The panel discussion titled 'How AI is Escalating Information Warfare,' moderated by…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (231+ words) An old video from June 2022 is being shared on social media with the false claim that it shows a Muslim Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker being beaten up in West Bengal. Assembly elections in West Bengal are scheduled to be held…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1337+ words) On the morning of 8th February, Jyoti had already walked nearly nine kilometres. It was a Sunday, and the 25-year-old content strategist was still chasing her step count when she spotted a small park near Sector 49 in Gurugram, Haryana. She walked…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (263+ words) A video of security personnel arresting people and pushing them into a vehicle is circulating with a misleading claim that it shows Indian Army deployment in Malda, West Bengal, ahead of the assembly elections. BOOM found that the video is…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (163+ words) BOOM found that both images are AI-generated. Google's Synth ID detector confirmed that both images were created or edited using Google's AI, and the Kerala image contains a visible Gemini watermark. 1) AI Detection Tools Confirm Both Images Are AI-Generated We…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1209+ words) Imagine you post a video on Instagram about a protest in your neighbourhood. You filmed it, you captioned it, you shared it with your followers. Under India's existing rules, you are just a user'a person expressing themselves on a platform....