Lighthouse Journalism found a video of Asaduddin Owaisi, Member of Lok Sabha, being widely shared on social media platforms. In the video he was seen performing an aarti of God Hanuman at a temple. It was claimed along with the post that this is the effect of the PM Modi government.
During the investigation we found that the video is AI-generated and not real.
Claim:
Instagram user love_sanatan_1 shared the video with false claim.
Other users are also sharing the same video with similar claim.
Investigation:
We started our investigation with a keyword search to find news reports about the incident. We could not find any.
We found a few comments on a post which claimed that the video was AI generated.
We then ran a keyframe from the video through HIVE Moderation an AI content detector.
The detection tool suggested that the input is likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content.
undetectable.ai also suggested that the keyframe was created by AI.
Conclusion: The viral video of Asaduddin Owaisi performing the aarti of God Hanuman is AI-generated. The viral video is fake.
