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❤> Hate: How SRK's Fan Clubs Destroyed Trolls
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Good morning. This week, we have a comprehensive tool guide for you to verify online mis/disinformation and a bit of Shah Rukh Khan's ‘Pathaan’—Naam toh suna hi hoga.
Lets begin!
🔖 In this edition, I am sharing a quick guide for verifying content on social media. Be it on Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram in the form of text/ image/ video—anything anywhere.
Image Verification -Reverse image searches on Google/ Yandex/ TinEye/ Bing.
Video Verification -Install InVid WeVerify Plugin extension to your Chrome browsers and break the video into several keyframes and then perform a reverse image search.
Archiving -Archive online links or search for already archived links on archive.is/ archive.st/ Wayback machine.
Advanced searches -Perform extensive localised and customised search using Facebook filters, Twitter advanced search, Google advanced search for image/ video/ text.
👉 P.S: While these tools are quite helpful in verifying online information, do make use of your observational skills and logical reasoning.
✅ Misinformation This Week
This week, we published 20 fact-checks and BOOM's Debraj Sarkar analysed the top 10 themes of false claims.
The release of the film ‘Pathaan’ remains the most noticeable theme of false claims, accounting for 21.43% of the total claims.
The new entrant is BBC's documentary on PM Modi, tied with ‘Pathaan’ related false claims at 21.43% of the total claims.
Islamophobia and cases of media misreporting account for the second spot, at 7.14% each.
Read our Twitter thread to know the detailed analysis. 👇
#Thread 🚨| This week, BOOM published a total of 20 fact-checks. The most prevalent nature of claims is tied to Entertainment (25%), with Communal claims coming second at 20%. (1/n)
#BOOMWeeklyReport#BOOMFactCheck
— BOOM Live (@boomlive_in)
8:20 AM • Feb 3, 2023
How Shah Rukh Khan Fan Clubs Destroyed Boycott Calls For 'Pathaan'
🔖 On 1 November, a group of about 170 youngsters met outside a single-screen theatre in Champaran, Bihar. Over cups of tea and biscuits, the group came up with a list of plans — the aim was to create so much excitement for 'Pathaan' that it would overtake all the boycott and hate messages against actor Shah Rukh Khan.
The usual press conferences, city visits, or marketing strategies that are a part of every big Bollywood release did not happen for 'Pathaan'. And this is where the many fan clubs of Shah Rukh Khan stepped in.
Read this detailed story by Nivedita Niranjankumar.
💰 What Do Changes In Income Tax Slabs Mean For You
🔖 In a major personal tax rejig, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that taxpayers could avail a tax rebate on income up to Rs 7 lakh from the current Rs 5 lakh. But this change in rebate will only be available under the new income tax regime.
Read this explainer by Mohammed Kudrati that compares the new tax regime from next financial year, what taxpayers can opt for now and the old tax regime.
🔑 How Will Netflix's New Password Sharing Rules Affect Users?
🔖 Recently, Netflix clarified how it intends to prevent users from sharing an account with people outside of their immediate "household" on its support page. The streaming giant shared updated FAQs on its official website detailing its new password-sharing policy.
What does the new policy say about sharing a password? How does the policy define 'household'?
BOOM's Hera Rizwan breaks it down in this explainer.
🔖 An old photo of a group of people on a beach carrying placards that spell out "#StopAdani" is circulating on social media falsely claiming that the image is from a recent protest in Australia against embattled Indian billionaire Gautam Adani.
Read Srijit Das' fact-check to know more.
🔖 Meanwhile, in this fact-check, BOOM's Hazel Gandhi debunks an old video of a man speaking about decolonising the climate movement and criticising the West for its contributions to climate change at Glasgow, UK.
Online claims suggested that the man is IAS officer Vijay Singh. But, what's the truth?
🎙️ Podcast
🔖 As digital investigators, fact-checkers are forced to look at the small picture, magnifying glass in hand. We zoom in so much—to work out if something is manipulated or not—that we might as well be looking at pixels and 1s and 0s.
But what happens when you zoom out and look at the big picture? What does our work through 2022, all 1135 fact-checks, reveal about ‘fake news’ in India?
This special episode of Media Buddhi A-Z is for all those who want to dig into the misinformation/disinformation ecosystem in India.
🅱️ Recommends
🔖 This week's recommendation is: The disinformation order: Disruptive Communication and the decline of democratic institutions by W Lance Bennett and Steven Livingston.
This paper deals with the diagnosis of disinformation campaigns as it becomes more and more prevalent across the globe. The similarities across national lines are used intuitively to provide a sequential description of the phenomenon.
👩🏫 Workshops
🔖 Join our workshops and courses on Fact Checking & Media Literacy. Visit 🔗workshop.boomlive.in
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