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💭 Has The Kashmir Files Been 'Shortlisted' For Oscars?
📅 January 14, 2023
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This week's edition features deep dive research conducted by BOOM on the fact-checks we published in 2022 and this week.
Starting this week, we will also present insights on how the week went by in terms of mis/disinformation with a view of the top claims, nature of the claims and top targets of the week.- Divya Chandra
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❎ Misinformation This Week
🔖 This week, we published 17 fact-checks and found that false claims were predominantly positive in nature, with 41% of the claims framing their target in a positive manner. Negative claims accounted for 35% of the claims, while 24% had a neutral tone.
Political claims rank on top: accounting to 24% of the fact-checks.
International and entertainment claims rank second: accounting to 18% each.
Prominent theme/ Dominant topic: Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra accounting for 18% of the fact-checks published this week.
🅱️ Annual Report 2022
🔖 We published 1,135 fact-checks in 2022, in English, Hindi and Bangla, between 2 January and 30 December. Each of these fact-checks dealt with a unique false claim. Archis Chowdhury and Debraj Sarkar analysed each of them and found that Muslims were the most targeted religious group of false claims last year, followed by Hindus.
Which political party was targeted the most?
The 2022 misinformation factory targeted several politicians, but who ranks at the top?
Find out in our annual report.
💯 Paani Puris In 5 Minutes: What It Takes To Be An Indian Mukbanger
🔖 South Korea's trend of eating large meals on camera has found takers in India. The costs, though, are huge — affecting the creators' physical and mental health.
"You always have to push yourself to eat more than the others. I saw the Jolo chip challenge; people were eating two packets, I ended up eating three," 28-year-old Chandu Naresh who started out his journey into Mukbang from Nagla Jai, a village near Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, recalled adding that the spices burnt his cheek, lip and tongue. "I drank ghee after that to deal with the spice and the stomach burn," he said.
Prachi Sibal spoke to eight Indian Mukbang creators to piece together their journey into the world of food challenges— a competitive eating sport for Internet views that can lead to several health challenges— to understand why and how they do it.
🔖 This week, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri claimed that his movie The Kashmir Files has been shortlisted by the Academy Awards for the 2022 Oscars, a claim that was amplified by several Indian news outlets.
But, has it been shortlisted? BOOM's Swasti Chatterjee found that the film has qualified for the Oscars along with 300 other films. The qualification does not confirm a nomination at the Oscars. The Academy Award nominations will be announced later this month on 24 January.
🔖 A viral message on social media, claiming that the title of 'Mahatma' was given to Mahatma Gandhi by the British, is false. This message accompanies a letter, purportedly by the British from 1938, that directs all references to Gandhi be made as 'Mahatma Gandhi'.
Read this fact-check by Mohammed Kudrati to find out the truth.
🅱️ Recommends
🔖 In this new section, I will be recommending one article to read that might be helpful for you to not only understand the mis/disinformation space better but also it will give you an insight on what's happening in the media and technology community.
This week's recommendation is: The year in conspiracy theories by Isobel Cockerell
It's a round-up of the most egregious instances of conspiracy theorists and their disruptive shenanigans from across the globe, ranging from election candidates to anti-blood transfusion stand-offs.
🎙️ Podcast
🔖 In episode 10 of our podcast Media Buddhi A-Z, HR Venkatesh, Archis Chowdhury and I tackle words starting with I such as identity, intersectionality, information overload, and IT Cells. Also, we interviewed Sophie Zhang, Facebook Whistleblower.
👩🏫 Workshops
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