Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 16 minutes ago
The Ministry of External Affairs has fact-checked and discredited a digitally manipulated deepfake video shared by senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan. The AI-generated video falsely showed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticising India over internal affairs and oil purchases. Official clarification from the Ministry of External Affairs followed a denial by the Russian Embassy, confirming the clip was entirely fabricated. Both Indian and Russian authorities cautioned against the growing challenge of digital disinformation and AI-generated misinformation impacting international relations.

Category

🗞
News
Transcript
00:00Some more news coming in. The Ministry of External Affairs has fact-checked Prishanth
00:05Bhushan's claims on Russian Foreign Minister. The MEA is calling it deepfake and digitally
00:12manipulated video which was posted by Prishanth Bhushan. Bhushan's AI video showed Russian
00:16Foreign Minister slamming India and now the Ministry of External Affairs has busted this
00:22misinformation campaign and it has posted a fake video alert and it is also saying that
00:28how it was a deepfake and digitally manipulated video which was posted by Prishanth Bhushan.
00:36So earlier, remember, he had posted a video showing the Russian Foreign Minister slamming
00:40India to which now the Ministry of External Affairs is claiming that it was a fake video,
00:45it was a digitally altered video and it's calling it a deepfake video that was posted by Prishanth
00:51Bhushan. So the MEA has now fact-checked Prishanth Bhushan's video in which a Russian Foreign Minister
00:57was present and was seen slamming India to which the Ministry of External Affairs has now
01:01clarified that it was a fake video, it was manipulated, digitally manipulated video and
01:06it was a deepfake clip.
01:18So earlier, remember, the Russian embassy had too discredited this video that was posted by
01:24Prishanth Bhushan in which Russian Foreign Minister was slamming India and now the Ministry of External
01:30Affairs has also clarified how it was a fake video and it was a deepfake clip. India Today Global's Pranayapad
01:38is now
01:38joining us with more details on this. Pranayapad, after the Russian embassy, now even the Ministry of
01:44External Affairs has clarified that how the video which was posted by Prishanth Bhushan was a fake one.
01:51Absolutely, the Ministry of External Affairs and also the Russian embassy has clarified and in fact,
01:56they fact-checked the video posted by Prishanth Bhushan and this clearly shows how difficult and how challenging
02:02the situation of this misinformation and disinformation and AI-generated content has become for the
02:09international relation as well because in this video, it was being claimed that Russian Foreign Minister
02:14Sergey Lavrov claimed that, you know, we do not allow Indians who are the primary buyer of Russian oil to
02:21interfere in our internal affairs and our internal politics and the way Russia conducts its foreign
02:27policy. However, that turned out to be a fake video and that is the reason why the Ministry of External
02:32Affairs and the spokesperson, Mr. NBTI as well, clarified that this video is not true and in fact,
02:38the government of India as well as the government of Russia has also sextracted this thing.
02:45Thank you for joining us with those details. So, the Ministry of External Affairs has also now
02:51discredited the video that was posted by Prishanth Bhushan and the Ministry of External Affairs has
02:56clarified how it was a fake video and it was a deep fake video that was posted by Prishanth Bhushan.
03:02Earlier, remember, the Russian embassy had also discredited the video in which a Russian foreign
03:06minister was seen slamming India and now the Ministry of External Affairs has also called it a fake
03:12video and has clarified that that video was digitally manipulated.
03:28So, that's the latest that's coming in. The Ministry of External Affairs has now fact-checked
03:33Prishanth Bhushan's Russian foreign minister post. The MES says that it was a deep fake and digitally
03:37manipulated video which was posted by the senior Supreme Court lawyer and Bhushan's AI video had
03:45showed Russian foreign minister slamming India to which now the Ministry of External Affairs has
03:49busted the misinformation campaign and it has posted a fake video alert and earlier, remember,
03:54Russian embassy had also discredited the video.

Recommended