Question 1

Is BSmeter a BOOM Live alternative?

Accepted Answer

Not really — it's a complement. BOOM Live is a newsroom that publishes human-reported, IFCN-certified fact-checks on claims it judges to be viral and high-impact. BSmeter is a tool you point at a specific video to get automated per-claim credibility scores. If you want an authoritative ruling on a claim spreading across Indian social media, check BOOM first. If you want the video you're watching right now analyzed, that's BSmeter. Neither replaces the other.

Question 2

Is BSmeter as accurate as BOOM Live's fact-checks?

Accepted Answer

No, and we won't pretend otherwise. BOOM's journalists contact original sources, consult experts, and operate under IFCN certification with a public corrections policy — that's a higher standard of verification than automated cross-referencing. BSmeter trades some of that rigor for coverage and speed: it will check any video in minutes, where a newsroom can only investigate a small fraction of claims. That's why we link the underlying sources for every claim — so you can check the work rather than trust the score.

Question 3

Does BOOM Live fact-check videos and deepfakes?

Accepted Answer

Yes. BOOM investigates video claims and AI-generated media, and runs a Deepfake Watch newsletter tracking synthetic-media trends. The difference is scope: BOOM publishes an article resolving a specific claim it has chosen to investigate. BSmeter transcribes an entire video you supply, extracts every verifiable claim in it, and flags deepfake and AI-generation signals automatically — broader coverage of one video, without the human reporting behind BOOM's rulings.