After Cyclone Montha made landfall along the coasts of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu on October 28, 2025, several videos began circulating on social media claiming to show the storm’s aftermath. One such video shows a massive whirlpool forming in a water body, with users claiming it depicts the effects of Cyclone Montha.
A Facebook user posted the viral post with the following caption:
Montha Cyclone!! Montha means beautiful flower, this cyclone was named after the country of Thailand. A satellite image of the cyclone creating havoc in the hills was taken…
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post and found the claims to be fabricated.
Performing a Reverse Image Search of the video keyframes, NewsMobile found the same video uploaded multiple times on social media in July, August, and September 2025 — well before Cyclone Montha’s formation in late October 2025.
A version of the same video had also been shared on Facebook in July 2025, carrying a watermark reading “Dr. Vea”. The account “Dr. Vea” is known on TikTok for sharing AI-generated videos, several of which have been previously debunked by Factly when they were claimed to be real visuals of ocean sinkholes.
Analysing the viral video further by using the Hive Moderation, an AI detection tool, it is confirmed that the video was artificially generated by 95.75%.
Therefore, we can conclude by saying that the viral post, claiming to show a massive whirlpool forming in a water body, depicting the effects of Cyclone Montha, is fabricated.
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