Claim US President Joe Biden admitted to taking the Pakistan Army chief on board in a conspiracy to remove former Prime Minister Imran Khan from office in April 2022, according to an audio recording. Fact Soch Fact Check conducted rigorous deepfake tests and spoke with multiple experts in the relevant fields to ascertain that the […]
Claim: A video circulating online shows politician Hina Parvez Butt in an explicit act. Fact: The video is doctored, with Butt’s face superimposed onto an unrelated video featuring two unidentified individuals. A video shared on Facebook shows Hina Parvez Butt with a man, allegedly engaged in an explicit act, accompanied by the text: “حینا پرویز […]
Claim: An image shows Maryam Nawaz wearing a short pink dress, alongside two senior Punjab Police officers in bright pink clothes. Fact: The picture has been doctored, likely using the Generative Fill tool of Adobe Photoshop that uses artificial intelligence (AI). On 26 April 2024, X (formerly Twitter) user @MehreenAli99 posted (archive) a picture of […]
Claim: A video from the Pamir mountain range in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan shows a child playing with a white tiger she raised from birth. Fact: The video in question is AI-generated and does not depict a real scenario. A video allegedly showing an Afghan child playing with a tiger cub has been […]
Claim: A video shows Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President, Maryam Nawaz dancing. Fact: The video is a deepfake altered by replacing the dancer’s face with Maryam Nawaz’s to create the impression that she is the one dancing. It actually shows Indonesian model, Jihane Almira Chedid. How are deepfakes created? An article published by […]
Claim: Model Bella Hadid has spoken in favour of Israel, apologising for her past remarks about the country. Fact: The clip was created by altering an old video, using deepfake technology. The original video is from 2016 when the model spoke about her challenges growing up with Lyme disease at the Global Lyme Alliance Gala […]
Claim: A photo shows that a camp has been set up for displaced Israeli refugees in Eilat, Israel. Fact: The photo does not show a tent city in Eilat. In fact, it was created using artificial intelligence (AI). What’s happening in Gaza? On 7 October 2023, the Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, […]
Claim: A picture shows three stunt doubles of Tom Cruise. Fact: The men are not the stunt doubles of Tom Cruise. In fact, the picture is AI-generated. On 8 June 2023, Instagram account @fhmpakistan posted a picture (archive) showing what the magazine claims are “three stunt doubles” of Hollywood actor Tom Cruise. @fhmpakistan captioned the […]
Claim: An image shows a library full of books made of glass at a Swiss bus station. Fact: The photo doing the rounds on social media is not real; it was generated by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) art tool Midjourney by Ulises AI. On 16 April 2023, a Facebook user shared an image of a […]
Claim: A court in Pakistan’s Punjab province used artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT-4 to make a decision in a legal case involving a dispute between two parties over a contract. Fact: The decision of the bail petition was not made by or with the help of ChatGPT, but Judge Amir Munir only consulted the artificial […]
Claim: Photos show former US president Donald Trump being arrested in New York. Fact: The photos doing the rounds on social media are not real. It was generated by Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins using the Artificial Intelligence (AI) art tool Midjourney. Fact or Fiction? On 21 March 2023, Twitter user @yoncecapital posted a photo claiming […]
Claim: A photo shows a baby jumping out of an airplane and skydiving. Fact: The photo doing the rounds on social media is an AI-generated image created by Facebook user Timothy J. Nemeth. Fact or Fiction? On 5 April 2023, Diva Magazine posted a photo on Instagram claiming that it shows a baby skydiving. “#DivaReports: […]