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Deepfake videos falsely show Indian journalists reporting NDA leaders funded PTI

Preliminary Why: Publisher not yet named · subject to change

Status: no action reported

Severity moderate
Reported 21 Nov 2025

No source states: loss or records, developer and model, agent tool, could do, deployer, industry.

Severity moderate: test: the likenesses of third-party journalists and their outlets were used in fabricated videos, with scope bounded to the three stated videos

Three videos circulating on social media showed senior Indian journalists apparently reporting that Bihar NDA leaders were under investigation for funding Pakistan's PTI. The clips used the likenesses of Ravish Kumar, Palki Sharma and Shiv Aroor. Fact-checkers found that no such reports appeared on the journalists' or outlets' official platforms. Reverse image searches traced the backgrounds and attire to genuine broadcasts from 15 and 20 November 2025. AI voice and video detection tools flagged the clips as likely synthetic. Fact-checkers concluded that the audio was AI-generated and added to unrelated original videos, and that none of the reporters made the statements attributed to them.

What happened

1 · What it was doingThree social media videos allegedly showed senior Indian journalists reporting that Bihar NDA leaders were under investigation for funding Pakistan's PTI.
2 · What went wrongThe reporters never made the statements attributed to them; the clips were altered.
3 · What it reached or didSocial media posts shared the clips, with the claims attributed to Palki Sharma and Shiv Aroor among them.

What was done

No source states an action or fix.

Risks

Manipulation and misinformation
Primary65 incidents

Sorted by rule from the case's fields; not yet read from the sources.

Controls

Not yet read for controls. Controls that mitigate the primary risk:

Model

Marking machine-made output · Abuse monitoring and account enforcement · Content safety classifiers

Application

People told they are dealing with AI

Infrastructure / target

Phishing and fraud filters

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Evidence

No source states: how it was caught, when it happened, when it was found, how many records were exposed, the direct loss, a count of the other parties affected, any court case, the cause, what set it off, what was done.

Show the full account: 2 items from the primary sources

What happened, in order

  1. 2025-11-14 Bihar Assembly election results announced.
  2. 2025-11-20 Nitish Kumar sworn in as Chief Minister in Patna.
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What happened

Earliest source we hold
2025-11-21
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
Who caught it
an outside party
C one secondary source states it
Where its input came from
AI-generated audio added to unrelated original videos, with original visuals paired with fabricated audio
C one secondary source states it
What went wrong
other
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown

Impact

Severity
moderate
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
Why this severity
test: the likenesses of third-party journalists and their outlets were used in fabricated videos, with scope bounded to the three stated videos
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown

LR-2026-0329 · version 1 · published 2026-11-01 after automatic checks; not yet checked field by field by a person · JSON