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Right wing website OpIndia claimed that LiveLaw, a legal news portal, falsely reported on Sharjeel Imam's Supreme Court case, accusing them of misinformation about judicial proceedings. But, what’s the truth? Read on!

We, at BOOM, continue to debunk and verify viral online misinformation around the upcoming Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand. Here are some tips that can help you spot false information and differentiate between what’s real and fake.

• Question the source: Is the viral message telling the source of information to you? If not, ask the person or account who shared it. Always look for the primary source of information.

• Which link to click on and trust?: There is no easy answer to this because anybody can fall for misinformation no matter how credible the outlet is. But still, you should see if the link is properly attributing the information to the right sources. You should check how comprehensive it is in terms of the information it's giving out. Check if the link is citing data or quoting officials or carrying some official documents.

• Search for fact-checks: More often than not, you will find a fact-check article on online misinformation that went viral. When you search on Google using relevant keywords, and if there is a pre-existing fact-check, then usually fact-checks are ranked much higher on the search result page as compared to other articles.

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OpIndia Falsely Claims LiveLaw Misreported Sharjeel Imam Matters In SC

🔖 Claim: Right wing website OpIndia claimed LiveLaw – a legal news portal, misreported a case in the Supreme Court filed by student activist Sharjeel Imam. OpIndia’s article – written by Nupur Sharma, its Editor-In-Chief, relied on LiveLaw’s tweets on Imam’s case and screenshots of the causelist and case details from the Supreme Court’s website.

There is more: OpIndia said there was only one case – before Justice Sanjiv Khanna’s bench, where Imam sought to club five FIRs in connection with a 2020 sedition case filed against him. OpIndia said there was no bail hearing, and that there was no matter listed before Justice Trivedi.

Facts of the matter: BOOM’s Ritika Jain found that LiveLaw's reporting was accurate and that OpIndia's claims against the website were false.

The catch: On 22 October 2024, the Supreme Court listed two different pleas filed by Imam. OpIndia missed the second case that was listed before Justice Bela Trivedi's bench for the same day.

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An AI Chatbot Is Being Blamed For A Teenager’s Suicide

🔖 AI & harm: Megan Garcia, a Florida resident, has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, alleging that the company’s chatbot contributed to the suicide of her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer.

The argument: The grieving mother argues that the AI-powered chatbot influenced her son’s decision to end his life, holding Character.AI accountable for complicity.

Character.AI’s apology: Following the incident, Character.AI issued a public apology on X, extending its deepest condolences to the family. The company announced it is implementing new safety and product features to minimise exposure to sensitive or suggestive content for users under 18.

Read Hera Rizwan’s story.

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🚫 Fake News You Almost Fell For

🔍 A 48-second video clip showing Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge waiting outside the collectorate's room during Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s nomination for the Wayanad bypolls went viral on social media. Several Bharatiya Janata Party leaders claimed that Congress deliberately kept Kharge out because he is a Dalit. Find out the truth in 🔗 Nidhi Jacob’s ↗️ fact-check.

🔍 An old video showing a montage of constructions demolished and razed to the ground because of illegal encroachment in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich was circulated with claims linking it to the recent violence where a youth was shot dead. 🔗 Rishabh Raj ↗️ debunked the claim.

🔍 Did Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut make a remark referring to Uddhav Thackeray as the ‘emperor of Muslim hearts’? Find out in 🔗 Anmol Alphonso’s ↗️ fact-check.

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