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Mamun Abdullah
Mamun Abdullah is a fact checker and journalist originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has a bachelor’s and master’s in Television and Film Studies from the University of Dhaka. After starting journalism in the university campus, he led as a president of Dhaka University Journalists' Association. He currently works at BOOM Bangladesh as a fact checker.
Tausif Akbar
Tausif Akbar serves as a Senior Fact-Checker at Boom Bangladesh. With a background as a Media Literacy Trainer (TOT) and expertise in digital investigation, he is adept at reality assessment and fact-checking. Over the past three years, Tausif has dedicated himself to the field of fact-checking and media oversight. His areas of specialization include Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), Social Media Intelligence (SocMINT), geolocation, and prebunking, as well as identifying AI-generated content, deepfakes, CGI, and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN).
Ummay Ammara Eva
Ummay Ammara Eva
Ummay Ammara Eva is a Fact-Checker, working for BOOM Bangladesh. She completed graduation and post graduation from the department of Mass Communication & Journalism, Dhaka University. After working as a journalist for several years, she got interested in Fact-checking. Apart from fact-checking, she loves singing.
Ameer Shakir
Ameer Shakir
Ameer Shakir has been working as Editor of BOOM Bangladesh since June, 2021. He started working in Bangladeshi news outlets from 2007. Mr. Ameer has long experience to work in different form of popular news outlets like newspaper, online news portal, news agency and electronic media in Dhaka. Currently he puts his efforts to debunk mis/disinformation found in online platforms and mainstream media. Earlier Mr. Ameer studied Mass communication and Journalism from University of Dhaka. Then he did Master’s on International Business in China under a fulbright scholarship of MOFCOM.