2023-04-30 10:30:25
AI created images were shared indiscriminately in the month of April. It started following getting approval to prosecute former US President Donald Trump in a criminal case. In the case of the Dalai Lama, a similar picture was shared with the claim that he has been arrested. Apart from this, AI created pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dalai Lama and Putin were shared on Indian social media platforms, which users shared indiscriminately believing it to be correct.
New Delhi (Vishvas News). The month of April was full of political activity following the announcement of Karnataka elections and the same theme was reflected in Fact Check Trends as well. In the month of April, Vishvas News published around 150 fact check reports and majority of these reports were fact checks related to political topics. If we look at the top political trends, these include fake pre-poll surveys released for Karnataka elections, old and unrelated video clips of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, which were intended to spread election propaganda.
The murder of mafia-turned-MP Atiq Ahmed and his brother in Uttar Pradesh was one of the major political headlines of April and misleading and fake claims related to it were widely shared on social media. A news agency PTI report in this regard was widely shared, claiming that Atiq Ahmed played a key role in saving the fall of the then UPA government in 2008.
AI created images were shared indiscriminately in the month of April. It started following getting approval to prosecute former US President Donald Trump in a criminal case. In the case of the Dalai Lama, a similar picture was shared with the claim that he has been arrested. Apart from this, AI created pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dalai Lama and Putin were shared on Indian social media platforms, which users shared indiscriminately believing it to be correct.
Claims related to the release of YouTuber Manish Kashyap arrested in a fake news case, fake and misleading videos and images related to the economic crisis in Pakistan were some of the other top trends.
karnataka assembly elections
On March 29, the Election Commission announced the dates for the assembly elections in Karnataka, and following that, a series of election propaganda followed the pre-existing trends on social media.
Like every election, this time also in the name of Karnataka elections, an attempt was made to mislead voters by sharing false and fabricated data of pre-polls survey.
In the name of BBC News, which did not conduct any pre-poll survey in India, a similar fabricated survey was viral claiming that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is going to form the government once once more in Karnataka. In fact, BBC does not conduct any kind of pre-poll survey in any election in India and in every election, an attempt is made to mislead voters by sharing such poll data in the name of BBC.
Apart from this, many old and old data of election surveys of other states were shared as the data of pre-poll survey of Rajasthan elections. Both these fact check reports of Vishvas News can be read by clicking here and here.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi
As per the prevalent trends of every previous election, Karnataka elections also saw the trend of election propaganda through edited video clips and altered images of leaders. After PM Modi’s Tamil Nadu tour, an edited image was shared to suggest that people there protested once morest the Prime Minister. In our investigation, we found this picture edited.
At the same time, through another old video clip, an attempt was made to spread propaganda that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ‘illiterate’. Vishvas News in its investigation found that the video clip doing the rounds with this claim is of his old interview, in which he was talking regarding his experiences of handling administrative responsibilities following becoming the Chief Minister.
The same trends were seen in the case of Rahul Gandhi as well. After being warned once morest being sued by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s grandson Ranjit Savarkar following his conviction by a Gujarat local court in a defamation case, a viral post on social media claims that Rahul Gandhi Has removed all his tweets on BD Savarkar from his Twitter profile.
We found this claim to be false in our investigation. The claim that Rahul Gandhi’s tweets on Savarkar were deleted following Ranjit Savarkar’s threat is false and misleading, rather there are tweets on Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter timeline in which he is seen speaking on Savarkar.
After his disqualification from Parliament, Rahul Gandhi visited his parliamentary constituency Wayanad and attended a public meeting there. A short video clip of the same meeting was shared with the claim that Rahul Gandhi showed insensitive behavior by extending his hand towards a person who was physically challenged.
In our investigation, this claim was also proved to be false and a propaganda once morest Rahul Gandhi. The viral clip was a short excerpt, shared out of context with the intention of disinformation. During the meeting, a disabled person sitting on a wheelchair came to meet Rahul Gandhi and during this time he extended his right hand towards Rahul Gandhi, which Rahul Gandhi holds. This is not clearly visible in the viral clip, but watching the video of the event in longer frames makes the context clear.
Other Vishwar News related to Karnataka election reports Click here to read.
Atiq Ahmed’s false claim of saving the UPA government went viral!
In the month of April, the murder of mafia-turned-don Atiq Ahmed and his brother made headlines. In this context, a report of news agency PTI was widely shared and almost all the news organizations published this report. The report claimed that in 2008, when the UPA government was in trouble following the withdrawal of external support by the Left parties due to the civil nuclear deal, the then Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Atiq Ahmed supported the motion of confidence. He played a key role in saving the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) from falling by voting in
In our investigation, we found this claim to be false and beyond facts. According to available parliamentary documents, Atiq Ahmed was one of the six MPs who voted once morest the motion. After this, the Samajwadi Party had expelled all the six MPs from the party. During the trust vote, the Samajwadi Party issued a whip to all MPs to vote in its favour.
This fact check report by Vishvas News can be read here.
In the same case, another video was shared with the claim that the accused in Atiq’s murder did not chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. A different video was shared with the claim that it is the video of the funeral of Asad Ahmed, son of Atiq Ahmed, who was killed in the encounter. Vishvas News found both these claims to be false in its investigation, whose fact check reports can be read here and here respectively.
Fake claims made with AI created images
In the month of April, one of the interesting trends in the claims related to fact check was seen as pictures made with the help of artificial intelligence i.e. AI tools, which were shared widely. Several pictures went viral on social media with the claim of former US President Donald Trump being arrested following his criminal trial was approved. Vishvas News in its investigation found that these images were created with the help of AI tools. That is, these pictures were synthetic media, which comes under the category of deep fake. The practice of sharing such images with false claims is gaining momentum across the world.
In a similar case, the picture of the Dalai Lama was made viral with the claim that he has been arrested. In our investigation, this picture also turned out to be prepared with the help of AI tool. Two other similar images were shared with the claim that US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have converted to Buddhism. In fact, both these pictures were also created with the help of AI tools.
In India too, many such pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi went viral, which were created with the help of AI tools. Fact check reports of other viral images created with the help of AI tools can be read here.
In 2022 Vishvas News published more than 1500 fact check reports in Hindi only and analysis of these reports gives us interesting information regarding the trends of mis-information in Indian scenario during the year.
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