What was claimed
An image shows a recent attack on Jewish ambulances in London.
Our verdict
Although this incident happened, this image is fake and was made with AI.
Fake image of Jewish charity ambulances on fire shared online
A fake image of an arson attack on ambulances owned by a Jewish charity has been shared on social media.
Real pictures of the aftermath and videos of the incident, which occurred in the early hours of Monday 24 March in north London, look markedly different from the fake image being shared online.
The buildings in the fake image do not match those from the real scene. There are only three ambulances visible in the fake image when in reality four were damaged, and they are also in different positions to those pictured in genuine photographs of the aftermath.
When we ran the image through a reverse image search, the image was marked as being “made with Google AI”, meaning it has a SynthID watermark indicating it was generated or edited with one of Google’s AI tools.
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This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as altered because this image is fake and was made with artificial intelligence.