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📍How Google Maps Was Used in MP Church Attack
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Good morning. We have some big news this week! BOOM has partnered with the International Centre For Journalists (ICFJ) on their Empowering the Truth Global Summit. We invite you to stop what you are doing every Thursday in March to fight disinformation by spreading the truth.
🔖 I have been talking a lot about mis/disinformation in the previous editions— from the fact-checking tools to the basic concepts/ terminologies to kinds of claims, among others.
But in this edition, I am going to touch upon: 😷medical misinformation or health misinformation.
Now, a lot of you would have received several WhatsApp messages regarding home remedies for coronavirus or for any other disease like cancer.
For instance, Garlic. If we trust the information we get on WhatsApp or any other social media platform, garlic seems to cure everything :P
What do you do in such situations?
Do you trust such messages that make claims around your health? Do you verify them with a medical professional? Or do you share them further because they're coming from a trustworthy source?
Send in your responses to [email protected] and I will discuss this in detail in next week's edition.
✅ Misinformation This Week
This week, BOOM published a total of 20 fact-checks. The most prevalent nature of claims happens to be Alarmist (30%), with International claims coming second at 20%.
Read our Twitter thread to know the detailed analysis by Debraj Sarkar. 👇
#Thread🧵This week, BOOM published a total of 20 fact-checks. The most prevalent nature of claims happens to be Alarmist (30%), with International claims coming second at 20%. (1/n)
#BOOMWeeklyReport#BOOMFactCheck
— BOOM Live (@boomlive_in)
8:12 AM • Feb 17, 2023
🌐 Can You Get The Internet To Forget And Erase Your Personal Data?
🔖‘Right to be forgotten’ is the right to have one’s personal information removed from the internet. But does that mean Google will erase everything you ask them to?
What does India's new Data Protection bill say? Saurav Das explains what you must know.
🌎 Which Parts Of India Are Most Prone To Earthquakes? Experts Explain
As Turkey and Syria deal with the aftermath of a deadly earthquake which hit the countries earlier this month and killed thousands of people, the answer to the question 'how prone is India to earthquakes?' is being sought.
Read this explainer by Hera Rizwan to find out.
Two Uttar Pradesh Men Used Google Maps To Plan Attacks On Madhya Pradesh Churches
🔖 With an intention to avenge the insult of Ramcharitmanas, a poem by Tulsidas based on the Ramayana, two upper-caste Hindu friends from Uttar Pradesh hatched a conspiracy to stir up trouble in Madhya Pradesh.
By using Google Maps and photos, Akash Tiwari (25) and Avneesh Pandey (24), zeroed in on a half dozen churches and shrines in Narmadapuram and Bhopal district to target it.
Read this report by Kashif Kakvi to know how the attacks were planned and how the police tracked down the duo.
Meanwhile, on 10 February, the Delhi Development Authority carried out a demolition drive in the Mehrauli area of Delhi, razing residential and commercial properties of the people.
DDA in a written statement had said that it had started the drive to retrieve ‘encroached DDA land’ in Mehrauli Archaeological park. However, the families in the area have been protesting against the drive, calling it “illegal.” BOOM's Kaisar Andrabi went and talked with the residential families.
🔖 Facebook posts claiming 23-year-old Nikki Yadav was strangled to death in Delhi by her Muslim boyfriend Mohammed Sahil who then stored her body in a fridge, are false as the accused in the murder is a Hindu man.
🔖 Several Indian news outlets, earlier this week, falsely claimed Pakistan denied airspace entry to an Indian Air Force aircraft carrying relief supplies to earthquake-hit Türkiye. Read both the fact-checks by BOOM's Nivedita Niranjankumar.
🅱️ Recommends
📖 This week's recommendation is: Echo Chambers, Cognitive thinking styles, and Mistrust? Examining the roles information sources and information processing play in conspiracist ideation by Brian Mckernan, Patricia Rossini, Jennifer Stromer-Galley.
Inoculation against false information relies on effective interventions in the process of interaction with conspiracist rhetoric. This study highlights three important factors that were not taken into account in unison in previous studies; institutional mistrust, inductive reasoning, and isolation from conflicting information during media consumption.
👩🏫 Workshops
🔖 Join our workshops and courses on Fact Checking & Media Literacy. Visit 🔗workshop.boomlive.in
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