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False: Bangladeshi Rohingya children stopped in Maharashtra A truck in which several minor boys were travelling was intercepted by police in Maharashtra's Kolhapur recently. A video of the boys — most of them wearing skullcaps — disembarking the truck in the presence of police is being shared on social media with some claiming that the ki (Source: Alt News)

False: Muslim woman throws eggs at Lord Ram's poster in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar A CCTV footage showing a woman defacing a large poster of Hindu god Ram in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (earlier known as Aurangabad), Maharashtra, is viral with false claims misidentifying her as a Muslim.BOOM found that the communal claim being made with the viral video is false;  (Source: BOOM Live)

False: Video is recent and shows a real incident of Muslims killing a woman in Kerala who was an RSS supporter. The speech in the video: On going through the speech, we found that the people were speaking in Malayalam. We translated it to English and the transcript can be read here.Person One: She fought, and she stood bravely against the RSS. In the end, the RSS killed her too...For what, (Source: WebQoof - The Quint)

False: The video shows PM Modi being ignored by the leaders at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan. A video showing several leaders at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan posing for a photograph and then interacting with each other while Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands alone is going viral on social media.Several social media users are sharing the video to claim that Modi is  (Source: WebQoof - The Quint)

False: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “It’s time to ban cash to fight climate change.” Amid ongoingfactualdistortionson social media warning of efforts to eliminate cash, users are sharing a screenshot of an unreliable website’s headline accusing the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate of advocating for such a future. (Source: Associated Press - AP News)

Barely-True: “(Donald) Trump ran up more debt than any other president in American history.” • Former President Barack Obama accumulated more debt on his watch than Trump did.• On a per-year basis, Trump oversaw a debt rate increase that was higher than Obama’s.• Assigning debt to a particular president can be misleading because so much of it traces back to decades-old, bipartisan legislation that set the parameters for Social Security and Medicare. (Source: PolitiFact)

False: A photograph shows an explosion that occurred near the Pentagon on the morning of May 22, 2023. About this rating The photo was fake. No such explosion occurred, according to local authorities. A fake photograph of an explosion at the Pentagon in Washington that was virally shared on Twitter may have caused the stock market to briefly take a slight dip. The picture went vir (Source: Snopes)