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Deepfakes Of SRK, Sehwag Being Used To Lure Indians Into Betting

June 28, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

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Meta platforms are full of AI-generated deepfake videos, featuring celebrities and well-known figures, seemingly endorsing the services of betting tippers. Read on!

Media Outlets Fall For CGI Video Showing Statue Of Virat Kohli At Times Square

In the headlines: Media outlets including News18 and The Indian Express carried a video of Virat Kohli's statue at Times Square and reported it as a real incident.

The fact: BOOM’s Hazel Gandhi found that the video has been created using CGI (computer generated imagery) as part of an advertisement for Duroflex, a mattress company represented by Kohli.

Here’s how we found:

  • Taking a cue from the Duroflex ads around Virat Kohli in the viral video, we ran a keyword search on Google using 'Virat Kohli Duroflex Times Square statue'.

  • This led us to the same video shared on Duroflex's YouTube channel on 23 June 2024. We noticed the word 'CGI' mentioned in the video's title.

  • The same video was also shared on Duroflex's Instagram page with a disclaimer that the clip was a "CGI Video" and a hashtag that read #cgianimation.

Queer Indians Confront Online Hate While Tech Platforms Stay Indifferent

🔖 Online hate & trolling: When Yash Sharma, 25, and his mother attended the annual pride parade in Delhi in2022, the photos went viral. Sharma was used to facing hate online, but this time, the trolls targeted his mother too.

“It’s odd and worrying, people like my mother have accepted their queer children, why should they face such harassment?” the queer-rights activist and founder of Official Humans of Queer told Jaishree Kumar.

The irony: When it comes to online harassment and bullying that the LGBTQ community faces on social media platforms, there has been little done by Meta or any other tech companies.

Deepfakes Of Shah Rukh Khan, Sehwag Being Used To Lure Indians Into Betting

🔖 Deepfake videos featuring celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan, Virender Sehwag, and Sonu Nigam are being used to lure people into illegal betting.

  • These deepfake ads are part of a larger trend where "match predictors" or "tippers" aggressively promote betting on cricket matches.

  • Loopholes in social media platforms' policies and the anonymity provided by platforms like Telegram contribute to the proliferation of such activities. Read Hera Rizwan’s story.

Protests, Re-exam, Investigation: What Do We Know About The NEET Fiasco

🔖 The NEET-UG 2024 results, announced on 4 June, revealed significant irregularities, including grace marks awarded to over 1,500 students and allegations of a leaked question paper.

  • Nationwide protests erupted in response to the irregularities, with students and parents demanding a re-test and raising concerns over the integrity of the examination process.

  • The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered an FIR to investigate these irregularities, taking over the case from the Economic Offences Unit of the Bihar Police. Read Hera Rizwan’s explainer.

🚫 Fake News You Almost Fell For

🔍 A photo of Vadilal ice cream with the Halal-certified mark on it was viral online with the false claim that the ice cream manufacturer adds beef flavour to its products. 🔗 Rohit Kumar ↗️ debunked the claim.

🔍 Were NEET paper leak accused arrested from the Congress office in Jharkhand? Find out in 🔗 Rohit Kumar’s ↗️ fact-check.

🔍 An image of two bottles of the soft drink Rooh Afza was viral on social media with the claim that its manufacturing company 'Hamdard' sells the product in India and Saudi Arabia with two different labels. But, is this true? Find out in 🔗 Rishabh Raj’s ↗️ fact-check.

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📖 This week's recommendation is: AMMEBA: A Large-Scale Survey and Dataset of Media-Based Misinformation In-The-Wild

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