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Fact-checking is essential to maintaining the integrity of information and ensuring that people have access to accurate and reliable sources of information. How then is a fact-check written? 

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

This week, I will tell you how a 📰 news story/ 🗭 opinion piece is different from the way a fact-check article is written. 

☑️ Firstly,

how is a news story different from fact-check article?

In the case of a news piece, the articles generally report on what has happened, what has been said. But is the statement given by the public personality factual or not? 

That's what a fact-check article answers. 

☑️ Secondly,

a fact-check article will explain each and every step of the process.

For example, if we are conducting a Google search, we will also tell you the kind of keywords we used to get the desired results.

This not only ensures transparency but also helps YOU, the reader, to follow the same steps and arrive at the same conclusion. 

☑️ Third,

the language used in a fact-check article doesn't involve opinions or whataboutery.

It's only based on evidence and primary source of information. 

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Minorities Blamed, Assaulted Over Covid In 2020: Pew Study Findings On India 

🔖 India scored the worst — 9.4 out of 10 — in the Social Hostilities Index, according to Pew Research Center's 13th annual study of restrictions on religion around the world in 2020. Among the 198 countries analysed by the Washington DC-based think tank, India fared among the worst in religious hostilities during the pandemic. 

Read this story by BOOM to know the key findings of the study on Covid related religious hostilities in India. 

🔖 A video claiming pro-Arvind Kejriwal slogans were chanted in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his roadshow in Surat, Gujarat on 27 November 2022, is doctored.

🔖 The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Gujarat unit used a photo of a flyover in Mumbai while listing proposed infrastructure projects in Gujarat, days ahead of the assembly election in the state. 

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