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Journalist Piyush Rai confirmed to BOOM that Yadavs turban was red, not saffron as claimed in news reports.
BOOM found that two of the videos were old and one video was a deepfake.
Social media users are sharing screenshots of Grok and Gemini replies that wrongly describe real photographs of police crackdown as old and unrelated.
BOOM found that the viral video is authentic and that police personnel were present near the dancers during the cultural programme.
Ved Patil, coordinator at E-Cell, IIT Bombay, said that fake claims are being spread to defame IIT Bombay students.
BOOM found that the video was synthetically generated using artificial intelligence.
BOOM found that while one of the videos was generated using Google AI, the other shows the controlled demolition of a building that took place in 2017.
BOOM found that the videos are unrelated to the flash flood that hit Nepal on August 26, 2026.
BOOM found that the video is from Sriganganagar, Rajasthan. The police have detained two people in this incident.

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