Verified Facebook user Tolu Babaleye shared a video claiming that church youths were excluded for money intended to build a youth hall.
He posted the video with the caption:
“Stolen at God's Vineyard! Youth President (Junior Pastor) “Japa” has church money. I think the senior pastor should pray for the junior pastor (a sinner) who paid him within a year instead of raining the curse.
As of August 27, 2025, the video has over 7,000 likes on Facebook! and generated more than 2,000 shares. Due to its viral nature and the fact that some users believed in the content, FactCheckHub I have decided to confirm the bill.
Claim
The video shows the pastor accusing the church's youth president of embracing church money.
Survey results
Survey results by FactCheckHub Shows that there is a claim Misunderstanding.
I used a watermark to trace the video to my Tiktok account using the userid @aprokko. I had an account Posted In the same video on August 21, 2025, the caption clearly states that it was generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
“Finally, the youth president of the church contacted the church in Hungary… #fyp, #viralvideo #churches #aivideos.”
Further analysis of the accounts shows that similar AIs regularly share generated church-related skits.
Early this year, FactCheckHub AI tools warned that they will be increasingly used to create hyperreal deepfakes, manipulation images, and fake audio. In countries like Nigeria, where digital literacy is low, such content can easily mislead people and promote mistrust and confusion.
FactCheckHub It also previously fact-checked an AI-generating video of the virus that mistakenly claimed to be showing abandoned homes and property belonging to the CEO of the deferred bank, Herbert Wiguet.
verdict
The claim that the video shows the young church leaders who fled with church money is misleading as it shows that they discovered that the video was made using artificial intelligence.
Nurudeen Akewushola is a fact checker for FactCheckhub. He writes several fact-checks that have helped him fight information disorders. You can contact him via Twitter via nyahaya@icirnigeria.org and @nurudeenakewus1.
