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Claim: A video circulating online shows US President Donald Trump speaking in Urdu, pledging to act against the Pakistan Democratic Movement. Fact: The video is doctored. Deepware and audio analyses revealed manipulated audio frequencies and deepfake characteristics. Following Trump’s victory in the 2024 US Presidential election, X user @Tabii_DxB shared a clip (archive) of Trump […]

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Claim: Pakistan Army Chief Gen Asim Munir got up from his seat to touch the knees of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman out of respect, according to a viral video Fact: The video is AI-generated and a real picture was likely animated to create the clip. AI and manipulation detection tools also indicated the […]

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Claim: An image claims to show the authorities’ crackdown on PTI’s rally at D-Chowk, Islamabad on 4 October. Fact: The viral image in the claim does not accurately depict PTI’s 4 October rally at D-Chowk. A visual comparison with images and footage from the site and AI analysis highlight significant discrepancies, indicating that the image […]

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Claim: A still video  shows Geo News anchors kissing live on air. Fact: The viral still video does not feature Geo News anchors or its newsroom. Geo’s logos were superimposed onto the visual, which appears to originate from another source. On 29 April 2024, a still video (archive) showing two news anchors kissing during a […]

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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 […]

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Disclaimer: While the fact that the Sindh Police manhandled women during the Sindh Rawadari March outside the Karachi Press Club on 13 October is not disputed, this fact-check focuses solely on analysing the viral image. Claim: An image shows demonstrator Romasa Jami manhandled by the police at the Sindh Rawadari March that was held in […]

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Claim: A video shows Pakistan Tehreek Insaf’s (PTI) rally at D-Chowk held earlier this month. Fact: The video is clearly AI-generated. On 5 October, X user @Abdulla_Alamadi posted a video (archive) apparently showing Pakistan Tehreek Insaf’s (PTI) supporters marching on a road to D-Chowk during a protest. The user wrote: “𝑫𝙊 𝙊𝑹 𝑫𝙄𝑬: The Pakistani […]

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Claim: A viral video shows Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa eating a doughnut during a Supreme Court session. Fact: The video is doctored; it appears that a clip from a Supreme Court session was manipulated.  On 27 September, a video showing the Chief Justice of Pakistan eating a doughnut during a Supreme Court […]

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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 […]

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Claim: A video claims to show an eight-foot-long centipede. Fact: The video was generated using artificial intelligence. Its creator has confirmed that he made it using Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha tool. On 26 June 2024, BOL News posted (archive) a viral video on its Instagram account, @bolnetwork, comprising two different footages that allegedly depict a giant […]

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Claim: Former US president Donald Trump has said that Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan is a supporter of Israel and approves of normalising ties with Israel.  Fact: The claim is false as the video is AI-generated. No credible media reports suggest that Trump made this statement. The screenshot of a Washington Post article whose […]

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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 […]

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