Amid the ongoing Israeli-Iranian military conflict, Pakistani social media users believe in the allegations that the protest rally was held in Israel and appear to be calling on Pakistan to help stop Iran's retaliatory attacks.
The claim is false. The video is generated by AI.
Claim
On June 18th, a user on X (formerly Twitter) posted a 13-second video clip with the caption. “Now, even Israeli Jews are asking for help, saying that Pakistan will help us save us and stop the attacks by Iran.”
In the footage, people can be seen carrying Israeli flags and placards in Hebrew writing.
At the time of writing, the video has been viewed over 96,600 times, reposted over 490 times, and liked it over 1,100 times.
fact
Independent analysis confirms that the video was created using artificial intelligence tools.
Geofact Check To examine the video, we used Attestiv, a US-based AI content and digital forensics platform. Attestiv gave images taken from the clip a high tamper score of 88. This indicates that the content is not authentic.
Geofact Check We also used Hive Moderation, an AI-generated content detection platform. This shows that the video is 84% likely to have been generated using artificial intelligence.
There are also visible abnormalities in the video. As identified in MIT Media Lab Research, some of the faces look very smooth.
Separately, US or Israeli news outlets have not reported such protests taking place in Israel.
verdict: The video was artificially generated and no real protests in Israel have been shown.
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