Donald Trump

Does a viral image of President Donald Trump approaching the French first lady for a kiss accurately document the scene in Versailles? No, that's not true: The picture was first posted by an account that labeled it as satire. The picture was loosely based on real photos of the event, but was likely to have been digitally edited with the…

Do authentic side-by-side photos of Barron Trump and Justin Trudeau show that the two bear an uncanny resemblance? No, that's not true: Neither of the images used in the comparison of the two men is real. The OpenAI verification tool detected an invisible watermark embedded in each image, meaning the images were made with OpenAI tools. The AI-generated image of…

Does a viral video accurately represent an interaction between U.S. President Donald Trump and UFC fighter Ciryl Gane said to have refused to shake hands with him? No, that's not true: Ciryl Gane did shake hands with Trump at the White House event that took place on the president's 80th birthday. The video circulating on social media did not include…

Does a viral video show Donald Trump Jr. opening a pack with a white substance at President Trump's birthday UFC event at the White House? No, that's not true: The clip did not offer evidence that it was him or show that person's face. Available images from the gathering show that, unlike the man from the video, Trump Jr. did…

Does an authentic video show a man tearing down a Trump banner at the Department of Justice? No, that's not true: The account that originally posted the video described the footage as "AI daydreaming." There are obvious signs of AI in the video plus an online detection tool rated it likely to be an AI-generated video. There are no credible…

Did Donald Trump and other world leaders meet with several mysterious red-uniformed entities with long blond hair and pale skin? No, that's not true: There is no reliable reporting or photographic evidence such meetings ever happened or that these uniformed entities are real. Images of meetings between world leaders and aliens appeared on X in a video montage watermarked "Planeta…

Does a real photo show an Iranian player displaying a symbolic school backpack at the World Cup? No, that's not true: An AI detection tool determined that the image was 99.8% "likely to be AI-generated." There are no credible reports that an Iranian player held up the backpack. The symbol previously has been exhibited in honor of schoolgirls killed when…

Did Donald Trump's Truth Social account really make a post about an API service being unavailable, implying that AI writes his posts? No, that's not true: The supposed post does not appear on the president's official Truth Social account, and there are no reliable reports that it ever did. The fake post was edited to look like the real thing,…

Did the Associated Press publish a video report confirming that the suspected shooter of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' dinner had visited the Ukrainian embassy multiple times before the attempted attack? No, that's not true: An AP representative told Lead Stories that the video report using its logo had nothing to do with the news agency. Lead…

Does a real video show Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson publicly declining the invitation to attend the UFC White House event? No, that's not true: An AI-generated cloned voice has been dubbed over pre-existing video clips of Johnson. One clip -- which appears to show his mouth moving in sync with the audio -- is based on footage from an unrelated…