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A video of street vendors in Madrid selling designer bags and football shirts is being shared with false claims it shows people selling goods looted during the recent unrest in France. Read
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A longer version of the footage shared in 2025 includes a close up which shows the corpse of a dead goat, not a person. Read
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A widely shared video appears to show people picking up iPhone boxes after a ship sank in the Strait of Hormuz. But this video isn’t real and was made with AI. Read
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A photo of a woman who tried to stop looters at a Paris supermarket has been superimposed onto an old image of protesters holding a ‘refugees welcome here’ sign. Read
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Several widely shared images and videos contain an invisible SynthID watermark and other clues they were generated with AI, including garbled text and reusing old protest photos. Read
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We’ve spotted several AI images and videos being shared online with claims they show protests and violent incidents in France, as well as old footage dating back to 2023. Read
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A viral video claims to show hundreds of ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz. But the shoreline doesn’t match—it was actually filmed over Chittagong, Bangladesh. Read
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A viral image appears to show an elderly French couple in their underwear after supposedly being stripped and robbed during the recent riots in France. But it isn’t real and was made with AI. Read
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Footage appearing to show the Palestinian and Jordanian flags flying from the Eiffel Tower contains visual inconsistencies indicating it was created or edited using artificial intelligence. Read
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A widely shared image showing protesters with fireworks and Palestinian flags outside the Eiffel Tower isn’t real. It contains an invisible SynthID watermark and there are several visual glitches. Read
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