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At least seven killed in stampede at Hindu temple in India Panic reportedly broke out among thousands of worshippers after rumours that an electricity pole had fallen on devotees.

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At least seven killed in stampede at Hindu temple in India Panic reportedly broke out among thousands of worshippers after rumours that an electricity pole had fallen on devotees.

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Claim 1: “Woman at 92 goes viral doing squats, push-ups”

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Only one specific web search result mentions a 92-year-old woman (Grandma Rose) going viral for push-ups and squats; other results refer to different people (70/75 year olds or Gul Panag).

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Claim 2: “At least seven killed in stampede at Hindu temple in India”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that at least seven people were killed in a stampede-like incident at the Ashok Dham temple in Bihar, India.

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web search NEUTRAL — At least seven people have died, and more than a dozen have been injured, in a “stampede-like” incident caused by a falling electricity pole at the Ashok Dham temple in Lakhisarai, in India’s eastern …
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web search NEUTRAL — At least seven people were killed and several others injured in a stampede at the Ashok Dham temple in India’s eastern state of Bihar on August 17.
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web search NEUTRAL — More than 120 people were killed at a religious gathering in Uttar Pradesh in 2024, one of India's deadliest crowd disasters in recent years. Additional sources • AFP. Go to accessibility shortcuts.
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Claim 3: “the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to encourage the use of new world maps which more accurately depict continents with their true sizes.”

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Claim 4: “Trent Boult has highlighted KL Rahul as the key player for India in their Test Series vs New Zealand in November.”

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Multiple independent sports news sources report that Trent Boult identified KL Rahul as a key player for India in the November Test series against New Zealand.

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web search NEUTRAL — Team India's next Test assignment will be against New Zealand in November. (Photo: IANS).The 37-year-old, who has 317 Test wickets to his name, is a big admirer of Rahul’s batting style and expects th…
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web search NEUTRAL — Former New Zealand pacer Trent Boult has backed KL Rahul to be one of the key players to watch out for when India take on New Zealand in the upcoming two-Test series.
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Claim 5: “During the Hellenistic period, Greece gradually lost its political independence to Rome”

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Wikipedia and historical web sources confirm that Greece gradually lost its political independence to Rome during the Hellenistic period, culminating in the Roman conquest.

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Claim 6: “Swami Vivekananda was an Indian monk who founded the Ramakrishna Mission and introduced Vedanta and yoga to the Western world.”

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Wikipedia and other authoritative sources confirm Swami Vivekananda was an Indian monk who founded the Ramakrishna Mission and introduced Vedanta and yoga to the West.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, named after Swami Vivekananda, was formally inaugurated on 21 June 1946 by professor, philosopher, and politician, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. It is in the Mylap…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Swami Vivekananda is a 1998 Indian biographical film directed by G. V. Iyer and produced by T. Subbarami Reddy. It took Iyer 11 years to finish the research work required for the film and to write the…
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Claim 7: “The agency later deleted the image.”

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Multiple sources explicitly state that the Department of Homeland Security deleted the social media post containing the AI-generated image after the backlash.

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Claim 8: “The Department of Homeland Security drew backlash over an AI-generated social media post featuring a Sikh man facing off against a character made to look like Optimus Prime from the movie “Transformers.””

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Multiple independent sources report that the DHS posted an AI-generated image of a Sikh man facing an Optimus Prime-like character, which led to significant backlash.

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