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Claim: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defines the term ceasefire as an incident when someone “sees a fire”, which “could be a big fire or a small fire, a bonfire or even a candle flame”. Fact: The video is not authentic. A snippet from AOC’s real October 2023 livestream on Instagram has been doctored using altered audio. On […]

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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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Claim: A video shows former first lady Bushra Bibi talking about a kiss with a man during an interview.  Fact: The video is a deepfake, with Bushra Bibi’s face superimposed onto the footage of another woman which dates back to November 2022. On 26 April 2024, Facebook user Akbar Gilgiti posted a video of Imran […]

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Claim: PTI lawyer Advocate Naeem Haider Panjutha called for a boycott of the 2024 general elections in a newly-issued video statement. Fact: The audio of the clip is seemingly altered, with remarks that Panjutha did not make. In the original video, which was posted on 31 December 2023 and is over five minutes long, he […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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