Claim: Multiple videos of Elon Musk show him talking about Pakistan and India days after the two countries engaged in a military conflict in May 2025.
Fact: None of the videos are authentic as footage from Musk’s previous appearances has been superimposed with doctored audio to create a nationalistic narrative through deepfake content. The manipulation was confirmed by AI detection tools and a sound engineer’s analysis.
On 21 June 2025, Facebook user ‘حاجی عابد حسین’ posted (archive) a video allegedly showing tech billionaire Elon Musk talking about the four-day Pakistan-India conflict that took place in May 2025.
The accompanying captions reads as follows:
“دنیامیں9ملک ایٹمی طاقت ہیں سب نے ایک معاہدہ سائن کیا ہے کہ پہلےنیوکلیئرپاوراستعمال نہیں کریں گےلیکن پاکستان نے دستخط نہیں کیے اگر اپ پاکستان کو دھمکانے کا سوچیں گے تو انگلی اٹھا کر جو اپ نہیں دے گا بلکہ پورا ہاتھ جلا دے گا پاکستان نیو کلر پاور کے ساتھ نفسیاتی جنگ کا بھی چمپین ہے ۔
[There are nine countries in the world with nuclear power. All signed an agreement that they will not use nuclear power first, but Pakistan has not signed it. If you think of threatening Pakistan, it will not raise a finger to respond but will burn your entire hand. Pakistan is also a champion of psychological warfare along with being a nuclear power.]”
Soch Fact Check also came across other similar videos that show Musk speaking in favour of or poorly of Pakistan. Another such clip can be viewed here, the third was posted on TikTok but is archived here, as it appears to have now been removed. A fourth one can be found here.
We have transcribed Musk’s supposed remarks in four such videos:
Video 1: “Did you know only nine countries in the world have nuclear power and almost all of them signed one agreement. We won’t use nukes first, but there’s one country that said we’re not signing that. That country is Pakistan. Yes, Pakistan never made that promise, which means if you even think about threatening Pakistan, it won’t just raise a finger, it’ll burn the whole hand. That’s exactly why India backed off. They knew Pakistan doesn’t bluff and it’s not just Asia watching you in the RDX-style (sic) propaganda machines in the US know this truth. Pakistan isn’t just mentioned in the news. It’s marked red alert and classified files because this nation doesn’t just earn nukes, it controls narratives. So remember Pakistan isn’t just a nuclear power, it’s the champion of psychological warfare. If this video hits you with the truth, share it because voices that speak the truth are rare these days until the next one, stay ready, stay safe.”
Video 2: “India, you said you’d strike Pakistan at home, but look what happened. India, my friend, you said you would strike Pakistan at home, but today, when Pakistan took revenge, what happened? Pakistan entered your country, destroyed your air bases, and then left. And you did nothing. My friend, I’m truly disappointed by this. Your air force, your nuclear system, your defense systems all failed. Pakistan’s air force did its job perfectly and returned safely. This is your defeat. India. This is the moment you’ve acknowledged your failure. Pakistan showed the world how they…”
Video 3: “Pakistan and India, two great nations, but only one stands for peace and progress. India, your strength is undeniable. The world watches as you rise with courage and determination. Stay alert, stay united, and never forget. America stands with those who seek justice and security, keep leading with wisdom, and the future will be bright. God bless India. And God bless America.”
Video 4: “I hope the world becomes peaceful but if a war breaks out between India and Pakistan, I will provide free internet to the people of India through my Starlink so that they face no issues in communication.”
Musk — who has been a former advisor to US President Donald Trump — is the founder and chief engineer of the spacecraft company SpaceX, which has projects such as the Starlink satellites. He also owns X (formerly Twitter) and serves as the chief executive officer of automotive manufacturer Tesla, Inc.
Pakistan-India conflict
In one of the most intense military escalations in decades, Pakistan and India exchanged drones, fire, shelling, and missiles for four days in May 2025, resulting in casualties on both sides. The conflict raised fears of a nuclear war between the two neighbouring countries that have fought three wars over the disputed Kashmir region.
India launched Operation Sindoor on 7 May 2025, targeting multiple locations inside Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. These attacks killed at least 31 people — including three children — and wounded 57 others, according to Pakistani authorities.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar confirmed that the Pakistan Army “intercepted and destroyed 77 Israeli-made Harop drones” from India, a number also cited by the state media outlet, the Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV). As of now, Soch Fact Check has not been able to independently verify the exact number of Indian drones that entered Pakistan or how many were shot down.
However, debris from multiple drones was found in a number of locations; Soch Fact Check visited and investigated the attacks at two crash sites each in Karachi, Rawalpindi, and Lahore. Read our on-ground report here.
In response, the Pakistan Army announced a counterattack — named “Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos”, which is an Arabic phrase that translates to “iron wall” — against India in the wee hours of 10 May 2025.
The military’s media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said Pakistan hit “26x military targets as well as facilities that were used to target Pakistani citizens and those enterprises that were responsible for fomenting terrorism in Pakistan”. These bases included those at “Suratgarh, Sirsa, Bhuj, Naliya, Adampur, Bhatinda, Barnala, Halwara, Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Udhampur, Mamun, Ambala, and Pathankot”, it added. “[The] BrahMos storage facilities at Beas and Nagrota were also destroyed.”
India’s Defence Ministry alleged that Pakistan “launched 300-400 drones across 36 Indian locations”.
On 10 May, both nations announced a ceasefire agreement, which Pakistan and Trump say was brokered by the US president. New Delhi maintains that it was worked out “directly” by both sides.
On 11 May, India said 21 civilians and five soldiers had died.
In a 13 May statement, the Pakistan Army announced a total death toll of 51, including “40 civilians and 11 military service members”, and that close to 200, including 121 civilians, were wounded.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check did not find any instance of Musk speaking in favour of either country recently nor did we come across any news reports about the same. His known activity on X in May and June 2025 did not include the word “Pakistan”.
We did come across an indirect reference to Pakistan and India when he replied to a post by US State Secretary Marco Rubio on 11 May 2025 about the India-Pakistan ceasefire, saying, “Congratulations.”
Congratulations
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 10, 2025
The TikTok account that apparently has been making these viral videos, @gvn.news, has now deleted all of the clips in question but we archived them here, here, and here. While most of the content posted earlier has been removed, it continues to post new clips.
Moreover, using keyframes in reverse image search tools, Soch Fact Check was able to trace the original videos from which the viral clips were sourced and subsequently manipulated.
The first and second clips have been created using footage from Musk’s conversation with Chris Anderson, the head curator of Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED). It was uploaded to YouTube on 3 May 2017.
The third clip has been made by altering content from the 1,169th episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” a podcast hosted by American commentator and comedian, Joe Rogan. It was streamed on YouTube on 7 September 2018.
The fourth video, on the other hand, is created from footage from “Real Time with Bill Maher,” a talk show aired on HBO. It was posted to YouTube on 29 April 2023.
We were also able to locate transcriptions of Musk’s interview with Anderson of TED and his appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” on a website called Elon Musk Interviews here and here, respectively. The tech billionaire does not mention Pakistan or India in either of them.
Therefore the viral clips seem to be synthetically modified since all three source videos predate the May 2025 clash between Pakistan and India.
With regard to the fourth video — in which Musk apparently promises to provide Starlink service to Indians in case of a war — it is important to note that his company has received “a ‘Letter of Intent’ from the Indian government’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on May 7”. However, there has been no confirmation on the tech billionaire’s or his companies’ official channels about the same.
Sound engineer’s analysis
Soch Fact Check also sought a comment for audio analysis from Shaur Azher, a lecturer and audio engineer at Soch Videos, our sister company, who specialises in sound design and mixing and mastering audio.
“The videos currently being circulated appear to be deepfakes generated through artificial intelligence (AI), characterised by synthetic voice patterns and visual anomalies,” said Azher — who also teaches at the University of Karachi and the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST).
The technical observations he provided to support his argument are as follows:
- Synthetic frequencies detected: Spectral analysis of the audio reveals non-human synthetic frequency artefacts, typically associated with AI-generated or deepfake audio.
- Compression artefacts: RMS and Peak compression levels are unusually high, a common trait in voice synthesis software to mimic dynamic range. The unnatural loudness uniformity is inconsistent with organic human speech recordings.
- Uniformity in speech patterns: The videos exhibit uniform vocal modulation, lacking natural human inconsistencies such as breathing patterns, stutters, or real-time emotional inflection.
- Pitch monotone: Flat pitch and monotone delivery suggest use of text-to-speech technology, rather than genuine human vocal tones.
AI detection tools
The first tool we tested is DeepFake-O-Meter, developed by the University at Buffalo’s Media Forensics Lab (UB MDFL). Of the available detectors, we used four, namely DSP-FWA, WAV2LIP-STA, LIPINC, and FTCN.
The probability of the audio in question being fake according to the aforementioned detectors is provided in the table below:
DSP-FWA, or Dual Spatial Pyramid for Exposing Face Warp Artifacts, “can effectively distinguish AI-generated fake videos”, according to the DeepFake-O-Meter. It “target(s) the artefacts in affine face warping as the distinctive feature to distinguish real and fake images”.
WAV2LIP-STA, or WAV2LIP Spatial and Temporal Attention, “can identify wav2lip model generated deepfake videos”, according to the DeepFake-O-Meter. It “learns the spatial and temporal artefacts from multi-frames (5) to expose wav2lip deepfakes”.
LIPINC, or Lip-syncing detection based on mouth inconsistency, detects “lip-syncing deepfakes by identifying the spatial-temporal discrepancies in the mouth region of deepfake videos”, according to the DeepFake-O-Meter.
FTCN, or Fully Temporal Convolution Network, employs two stages: an FTCN, “focusing on temporal feature extraction by reducing spatial kernel size to 1”, and “a Temporal Transformer network for long-term coherence exploration”.
All four detectors use deep learning-based methods.
The other tool, Hive Moderation’s AI-Generated Content Detection, concluded that the first, second, and third video were each 99.8% likely to be AI-generated or “deepfake content”.
The same tool gave the fourth video an aggregate score of 5.2%, indicating that it was “not likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content”.
Soch Fact Check concludes that all four videos are doctored.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found the videos posted on Facebook here, here, here, here, here, and here.
This post on YouTube has been viewed over 283,000 times so far.
The clips were also posted on Instagram here, here, here, and here and on TikTok here.
Conclusion: None of the videos are authentic as footage from old Musk appearances has been superimposed with doctored audio to create a nationalistic narrative. The manipulation was confirmed by AI detection tools and a sound engineer’s analysis.
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