Claim: A video of group of people recording and accusing a few Indian Army personnel of forcing people to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party is being shared as a recent incident from the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Fact: BOOM found that the viral video is from May 2019 during the general election and not from the ongoing Lok Sabha elections as being claimed on social media posts. The Indian Army had refuted the claims made in the video by the unidentified men back in 2019. Tools used: We found

BOOM found that the video dates back to 2019 and is not a recent incident from the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

BOOM found that Ranaut was responding to a remark made by Himachal Congress president Pratibha Singh in the original video.

In the longer version of the video Chowdhury was asking votes for the Congress candidate of Jangipur Mortaza Hossain Bakul in West Bengal.

Claim: An old photo of the former Indian mens cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is being circulated online with a claim that it shows him urging people to vote for the Congress. Fact: BOOM found that the picture dates back to 2020, when Dhoni and his other team members celebrated Chennai Super Kings (CSK) reaching six million followers on erstwhile Twitter (now X). Tools used: BOOM performed a reverse image search on the photo that led to several news reports carrying the same photo. The

BOOM found that the photograph shows Dhoni celebrating Chennai Super Kings reaching six million followers on erstwhile Twitter (now X) in 2020.

BOOM found that the link leads users to a spurious website, which has no connection to a news outlet or to Anant Ambani.

BOOM found that the original video of Rahul Gandhi has been altered to make the false claim.