Amid the rising tensions between India and Pakistan, a video has gone viral on social media, claiming that it shows a fighter jet engulfed in flames in Pakistan. Many users say that Pakistani forces allegedly shot down the Indian aircraft.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral video and found it to be AI-generated.
A Reverse Image Search of the video keyframes yielded no credible news reports or sources corroborating the claim. The footage has not appeared in any legitimate media coverage of the ongoing tensions.
Additionally, on a closer analysis several inconsistencies and visual anomalies were observed, including unnatural flame textures and distorted backgrounds.
Also, running the video through Hive Moderation, an AI detection tool, we came to know that it was synthetically generated using artificial intelligence.
So in conclusion, we can say that the viral video of a fighter jet crash in Pakistan is only digitally created.
