This morning, CNN projected the victory of Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene on her race to represent the north-west Georgia seat in the House. Taylor's win comes despite criticism of her promotion of a conspiracy theory QAnon. #USElections2020
A blog post is being widely shared to falsely claim that an “Antifa flyer” shows left-wing activists planning to masquerade as supporters of President #DonaldTrump and riot following the election. @factcheckdotorg#FakeNews#USElections2020
Social media is rife with claims alleging that a poll worker tossed more than 100 ballots cast for President #DonaldTrump in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Elections officials in the county have now debunked this claim. @PolitiFact#FakeNews#USElections2020
CNN projected Trump to gain 18 electoral votes and a safe lead for the battleground state of Ohio. Trump had earlier defeated Hillary Clinton in the state in 2016 as well. #USAElections2020#Elections2020#Ohio
Speaking to a crowd at Wilmington, Delaware, #JoeBiden urged people to be patient & wait for counting of votes to be over.
Following Biden's speech, #DonaldTrump tweeted that he shall be making a statement later tonight. "A big WIN", he said in the tweet. boomlive.in/fact-file/us-p…
US President @realDonaldTrump shall delivery a speech shortly from the White House, hours after Joe Biden made an address from a drive-in results party in Wilmington, Delaware. #Elections2020
Social media is abuzz with doubts over postponing #ElectionResults declaration, with rumours regarding #MailInBallots flooding the internet, which have been further pushed by #DonaldTrump himself, who has repeatedly questioned its legitimacy. #FakeNews
#JoeBiden is at the cusp of winning #Elections2020 after an intense battle in Wisconsin & Michigan, both of which he won with extremely slim margins. As of now, CNN is yet to call Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania.
As the elections come to a highly competitive end, with Joe Biden taking a clear lead, President #DonaldTrump's campaign has filed lawsuits in three different states - Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. #ElectionResults2020#USElection
Former VP @JoeBiden has nearly closed the gap with @realDonaldTrump in terms of vote count in #Pennsylvania & #Georgia where the latter earlier had a comfortable lead. Experts state there are still 14,000 ballots left to be counted in Georgia. #elections
While it is still too close to call, #DonaldTrump has lost his lead in vote share in #Georgia by 1000 votes, as reported by CNN. Many absentee ballots were counted throughout Wednesday night in Fulton County - home to the state's capital Atlanta.
Elections analytics firm @DecisionDeskHQ projected @JoeBiden winning the 20 electoral votes from Pennsylvania, where he took lead after days of counting, and named him the next president of the United States. #Elections2020#ElectionResults2020
As elections kick off in the state of #Bihar, Facebook's Ad Library Report reveals that over ₹ 1.11 crore has been spent on political ads on the platform between September 26 and October 25, targetting users in the state. #BiharElections#BiharPolls
While both JDU and BJP spent well above ₹ 20 lakh in the month prior to Phase 1 of elections, its opponents, Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janashakti Party and Congress spent ₹ 4.9 lakh and ₹ 4.2 lakh, respectively. #BiharElections2020
RJD and newcomer Plurals were far behind with an expenditure of ₹ 1.5 lakh and ₹ 1.2 lakh, respectively. Surprisingly, West Bengal's Trinamool Congress is also targetting Facebook users in Bihar with political ads from its official page to a tune of ₹ 1.1 lakh.
An image of a group welcoming refugees in Kent, United Kingdom was shared falsely claiming that it showed Samuel Paty, the slain French teacher welcoming refugees a few years ago. (2/n) #FakeNews#France#SamuelPaty boomlive.in/fake-news/no-t…
A nearly three-year-old clip showing protests and counter-protests against the decision to close a prayer hall in the Paris suburb of Clichy was revived falsely claiming it as a recent incident after the attack. (3/n) #FakeNews#France#SamuelPaty boomlive.in/fake-news/2017…
#Thread🚨 Post riots breaking in #Delhi, BOOM has debunked several pieces of misinformation. Posts on social media falsely claimed that DCP Amit Sharma lost his life after being attacked by 'Muslim rioters' in Delhi. (1/n)#DelhiRiots2020#FakeNews boomlive.in/fake-news/delh…
A video showing a group of men vandalise a minaret of a mosque in #Delhi's Ashok Nagar was being falsely labeled 'fake', BOOM has been able to independently verify by visiting the scene. (3/n) #FakeNews#DelhiRiots2020 boomlive.in/factcheck/vide…
Thread 🚨: After the rape and murder of a Hyderabad Veterinarian, several right wing handles on #Twitter tried giving the incident a communal overtone. #Hyderabad#FakeNews@TwitterIndia (1/n)
BOOM spoke to @cyberabadpolice, investigating the case, who denied any communal angle to the incident and warned against sharing fake and communally sensitive posts. #Hyderabad#FakeNews (2/n)
@Payal_Rohatgi tweeted the details of the rape saying, "Hindu girl raped and murdered by rapists in Shadnagar of Hyderabad. Is Shadnagar a Muslim majority area?" #Hyderabad#FakeNews (3/n)