Description: A viral video falsely claimed to show Layal al-Ekhtiar of Al Arabiya confronting Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif over funding a 30-person Umrah delegation with public money while seeking aid from Saudi Arabia. Investigators concluded the video had been dubbed with AI-generated audio. The original interview was broadcast by Saudi-owned Al Arabiya in January 2023, and it contained no such exchange. Lip-sync inconsistencies reportedly confirmed the manipulation.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake technology developer and Unknown voice cloning technology developer developed an AI system deployed by Adil Raja and social media users, which harmed Layal al-Ekhtiar , Shehbaz Sharif and General public of Pakistan.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1002
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-03-23
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Posts from multiple users on different social media platforms since March 23, 2025, shared a video of an interviewer, claiming that it allegedly showed her confronting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and highlighting the contradiction between…
Posts from multiple users on different social media platforms since Sunday shared a video of an interviewer, claiming that it allegedly showed her confronting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and highlighting the contradiction between seeking …
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