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Hello,

I am writing this week's edition from a city that has cleaner air (as compared to Delhi) and the best weather—Bengaluru.🔆

We are in the middle of conducting a workshop on climate misinformation and fact-checking at the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru for journalists from different media outlets. 

👋 I'm Divya Chandra, a fact-checker & producer of Verified by BOOM, let's begin.

📂 A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body has found that particularly in the case of India, more than misinformation, it's the

partial information

that is causing problems. 

This is with respect to climate misinformation. 

In previous editions, I have discussed misinformation and disinformation but

what is partial information?

As the name suggests, it's the lack of information. For instance, let's say a chief minister claims that the state they are governing has seen growth in the state's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). 

While this may be factually correct, you as a citizen or a voter should be told/ aware about whether this growth is unique to only their tenure. What if this growth is linear and has been the trend under past governments as well? 🤔

👉 This is the

context that you ought to know

, or else you are receiving partial information and not the full context. 

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If Aftab Poonawala Used Bumble After Killing Shraddha Walkar, How Safe Are Dating Apps? 

🔖 In a survey conducted among women in India, dating app Bumble reported that 83% of women in India have faced online harassment of some sort and one of three of these women had to endure it weekly. 

What happens when someone wants to report a profile on Bumble? Or on other dating apps? How safe is dating apps when repeat sexual offenders, convicts, and abusers continue to use the platforms? 

What happens if you feel threatened while on a date you met through Bumble? How safe is a dating app user online and offline? 

Read this story by BOOM to find out. 

An Odisha Village Couple Was Hit With FIRs Over Their 'Viral' Pet Monkeys🐵

🔖 'Pet influencers' have been an integral part of the global creator landscape for years.  

However, on local content-sharing platforms and Facebook, content centred around animals amass massive engagement and this content mostly comes from accounts that don't have the usual bells and whistles of 'pet influencers' as we know them. 

Badri, a farmer in a small village in Odisha, who tried to and failed at becoming a film director in Bollywood, is one of them. An FIR has been lodged against him and his wife Monalisa. 

Read this ground report by BOOM to know the full story. 

🔖 During a recent poll campaign speech in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that his government drastically brought down mobile data prices. 

Even though PM Modi did not mention the launch of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio in 2016 and the deep price war, the numbers shared by him are correct. There has been a drastic fall in the price of data per GB over time, according to publicly available data. 

🔖 A month-old video of a woman lifting her T-shirt and flashing her breasts at a football match in Mexico was shared on Twitter as a recent incident from the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. 

Read this fact-check by BOOM to find out more.

We have been rigorously conducting LIVE workshops on busting fake news and telling you how to consume media. Check out our existing courses👇

If you have suggestions about this newsletter or want us to conduct workshops on specific topics, drop us a line at 👉 

[email protected]

 and we will get back to you in a jiffy.

Thanks for reading. See you next Saturday 👋