Jency Jacob

Journalist, Fact Checker, Managing Editor - @boomlive_in. Actively fighting disinformation in India. Previous: Business Standard, NDTV

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

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[BOOM Live @boomlive_in]

#BOOMFactCheck 🚨 Social media is rife with false claims and unrelated videos after India's retaliatory military action #OperationSindoor, on #Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. BOOM has debunked several such pieces of misinformation. (1/n)

Follow this #thread to read the fact checks ⬇️

[Sabeer Bhatia @sabeer]

Adani is suing me for ₹50 crore, apparently valuing the damage to his reputation at that amount.

I contend that wealth acquired through alleged wrongdoing does not confer credibility or reputation.

My valuation of that reputation? ₹0.

And if the reputational damage is zero, the compensation should be zero.

₹50 crore demanded. ₹0 deserved.

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

@ShoaibDaniyal @airindia When you are delayed and rushing to board, you wish its not Indigo but Air India 😇

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

An airport nearby saved the day. But why was there a fuel emergency in the first place? Will we ever know? @DGCAIndia @MoCA_GoI @RamMNK

[Govindraj Ethiraj @govindethiraj]

Flight AI 640 from MAA to BOM aborted landing and diverted to NMI two hours ago.
Diversion because of low fuel ?
Passengers given option of deplaning at NMI now or stay on board to take off in an hour for BOM.
Like a bus service.

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

This is shameful @ABPNews.

[Neha Singh Rathore @nehafolksinger]

सुनो @abp न्यूज़, मैं कोई कॉsल गर्ल या प्रॉस्टिट्यूsट नहीं हूँ.

जब भाजपा का आईटी सेल मेरा हौसला नहीं तोड़ पाया तो तुम जैसे गोदी मीडिया को कमान सौंप दी?

पहले भाजपा के नेता बेटियों की इज्जत ख़राब करते थे, अब तुम लोग भी बेटियों की इज्जत लूटोगे? इतनी हिम्मत? इतनी बेशर्मी? ये बात यहीं खत्म नहीं होगी @abp

बेटियों का सम्मान तुम लोगों के लिए खेल का सामान हो गया है?

@narendramodi @NCWIndia

[Anmol Alphonso 🕵 @AnmolAlphonso]

@boomlive_in 5.40 pm: Protests against IIT Bombay and demanding justice for Sahil continues as Sahil's parents hunger strike enters its 16 day. @boomlive_in

[Gargi Rawat @GargiRawat]

Richa Parashar says Rahul Gandhi grabbed her shoulder and pulled her violently, says she fell flat.
I point out in the video she said she fell to her knees, and the sequence looks different.
She also says she only informed her channel she was pregnant after this incident.

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

The brazen crackdown on journalists and lawyers by the Delhi Police. Read the meticulous reporting by @adrijabose on how the SC directives meant nothing to the cops who appeared to be working as per a plan to prevent any coverage. @DecodeInternet

https://t.co/T3fFxbZIZp

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Our colleague @NidhiSuresh_ was detained around 3 pm. She was taken in the same van as @neha_aisa. M The cops told the women they could leave around 6.30 pm, but the women are there demanding the men be released too

[RSF @RSF_inter]

At least 16 journalists were brutally detained while covering public demonstrations in #India. In addition to the four journalists already mentioned, RSF has learned that Anushka Bhardwaj (#BusinessStandard), Hritik Joshi and Rahul Charas (@NavbharatTimes), Shoaib Daniyal (#Scroll), Anshu (@newslaundry ), Saurabh Sharma (@Reuters ), Jagriti Trisha (BOOM), Shivang Shukla (Mo), Neeraj Jha (@moliticsindia), and freelance journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta were also forcibly detained in #Delhi, along with Kinjal (@AltNews) in #Ahmedabad and Divya Aslesha (Scroll) in #Pune.
Covering events of public interest is not a crime. It is their job. The police's actions against the press are unacceptable.

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

Constipated 😂 Absolutely

[churumuri @churumuri]

'The New York Times' provides a masterclass to India's constipated editors on how to use a photograph to convey an extra 1,000 words. @nytimes @adnanabidi

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

@patralekha2011 @seemay @DelhiPolice @Jtrisha7 @LtGovDelhi @CPDelhi Yes 👍

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

.@DelhiPolice why have you detained our reporter @Jtrisha7 ? We have lost contact with her as her phone has been taken away. She was reporting through the day. We seek her immediate release @LtGovDelhi @CPDelhi

[Pooja Prasanna @PoojaPrasanna4]

Look at the pattern. You were supposed to be a journalist but slowly getting into all those issues BJP wants to lie about. Guess why?

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

Spoke to Jagriti. She has been released after 3 hours far away from the location from where she was picked up. She was only doing her job shooting a video. The cops gave her no reason for detaining her despite being informed that she is a journalist. @DelhiPolice

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

.@DelhiPolice why have you detained our reporter @Jtrisha7 ? We have lost contact with her as her phone has been taken away. She was reporting through the day. We seek her immediate release @LtGovDelhi @CPDelhi

[Article 14 @Article14live]

@_sabahgurmat @abhijeet_dipke @nytimes @whattalawyer @scroll_in @sharmasupriya @LiveLawIndia @Cockroachisback @mehrpasr @betwasharma @barandbench @aishe_ghosh @SFI_CEC @NehaAisa @aisa_official_ @VijayMallangi @SauravDassss @AshutoshRanka @AITCofficial @cpimspeak Another reporter detained

[Jency Jacob @jencyjac]

@samar11 Not Delhi.

[BOOM Live @boomlive_in]

A video showing a truck unloading waste onto a road is being falsely shared by social media users and some news outlets as an attempt by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to block protesters from reaching Jantar Mantar.

BOOM found that the video is from Panipat, Haryana, where sanitation workers staged a protest and dumped garbage at Samidhan Chowk, GT Road on August 17, 2026.

Read the fact check here:
https://t.co/fkpR3lB4WK

#FactCheck #JantarMantar

[BOOM Live @boomlive_in]

A video showing a truck unloading waste onto a road is being falsely shared by social media users and some news outlets as an attempt by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to block protesters from reaching Jantar Mantar.

BOOM found that the video is from Panipat, Haryana, where sanitation workers staged a protest and dumped garbage at Samidhan Chowk, GT Road on August 17, 2026.

Read the fact check here:
https://t.co/fkpR3lB4WK

#FactCheck #JantarMantar

[BOOM Live @boomlive_in]

Speaking to BOOM, the woman journalist who accused ACP Vivek Bhagat of sexual assault, at a protest in Delhi against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, has responded to viral claims surrounding an ‘AI-generated’ video circulating online.

She maintained that she possesses authentic evidence of the alleged assault, but added that she will not share it with the Delhi Police until an official FIR is registered. Watch the full video here ⬇️

@srijitofficial reports

#DelhiPolice #Protest #AIVideo

[Govindraj Ethiraj @govindethiraj]

The panic calls have started.
Passengers who booked air tickets through Mumbai airport in next few months; international inbound/outbound to domestic connections and vice a versa.
Which airport will their flight land in or take off from ?
More importantly, they earlier accounted for a 3-4 hour layover at Mumbai CST airport.
It is physically impossible to make it from or to the Navi Mumbai airport in this time frame.
There is no indication that tickets being issued today account for the changeover either.

[Govindraj Ethiraj @govindethiraj]

A deep dive into the contentious Mumbai airport T1 rebuild project via @zinaldedhia04
A review of regulatory filings and statements by the airport operator shows that the scope and execution of the project have changed significantly — from rebuilding T1B, to a proposal to demolish the entire T1 complex, and now to a phased redevelopment beginning with only a section of T1B.
The earliest evidence dates to August 2017, when a structural audit of T1B was conducted.
By the 2019-20 regulatory planning period, MIAL had proposed about Rs 1,205 crore for reconstructing T1B, with AERA records explicitly stating that the existing terminal would be demolished and rebuilt.
https://t.co/9fa2deUHFr