Did a real Euronews video report claim that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's press secretary accused him of sexual assault in late May 2026? No, that's not true: The European news channel did not report that Pashinyan's press secretary, Nazeli Baghdasaryan, publicly accused him of sexual assault. There are no other credible news reports that she made such a claim. An AI detection tool concluded that the video was likely AI-generated after analyzing its content.
The claim appeared in a post and video (archived here) by the @omoNurseFr account on May 26, 2026. It read:
That's not just a crime. Pashinyan is accused by his OWN press secretary of using his power as Prime Minister to sexually assault her. That's not a scandal. That's predation from the top.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @omoNurseFr on X.com.)
Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) and did not find any matching reports for "Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's press secretary accused him of sexual assault" on the Euronews website (archived here) or elsewhere. Had Baghdasaryan actually accused him of sexual assault, it would have been widely reported by major news outlets.
The Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool concluded that the video overall was 99.9% "likely to be AI-generated":
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
While the images and the video of Pashinyan used in the video are authentic, the headline text and Euronews logo were overlaid on them. The audio shows signs of AI text-to-speech, which can create a professional-sounding "news" voice but often lacks the natural intonation and rhythm of a human reporter.
