00:00Did Trump make EU leaders wait in line outside his office?
00:08A blurry picture is being widely shared online,
00:11with claims it shows EU leaders sitting with bowed heads in a White House corridor.
00:16European leaders, alongside Ukrainian President Zelensky,
00:19met with US President Trump at the White House on Monday 18 August
00:23to discuss support for Ukraine.
00:25Images shared with captions alleging the leaders were being left to wait for Trump.
00:29One social media account said it was a humiliation,
00:32polling the leader's vassals at the court of the Mad Emperor.
00:35Another compared them to school children being lined up outside the principal's office.
00:40The image was also shared by an established pro-Russian account,
00:43with the caption, the picture of the day.
00:46However, the image is false.
00:48It clearly contains discrepancies typical of AI-generated images.
00:52This was confirmed by several AI detection tools.
00:55A reverse image search produced a higher quality version of the image.
00:59It shows a person sitting at the front of the row,
01:02who vaguely looks like French President Emmanuel Macron.
01:05But when looking more closely, the fingers of his left hand are mangled,
01:09and an extra pair of feet can be spotted to the right of him.
01:12Meanwhile, online posts claim the people sitting to his left are other European leaders present at the meeting,
01:18such as Ursula von der Leyen and Georgia Maloney.
01:21But they look nothing like them, and are wearing different outfits.
01:24Some social media users have picked up on the fact the photo has AI-generated,
01:28while others explained why it is fake in community notes on X.
01:32Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation also posted the photo stating it was a fake,
01:37and that it's being spread by Russian propaganda to discredit European leaders
01:41and devalue the significance of their participation in the negotiation process.
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