Fact-Check: Viral Video Showing Kajol Changing Clothes Is a Deepfake!
Kajol's face has been superimposed on a video of an English social media influencer.
The viral video which is being shared as one of Bollywood actor Kajol changing clothes is a deepfake.
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How did we find out?: We noticed that towards the end of the video, the person's eyes appeared to glitch, indicating that the video was morphed.
One eye appears to remain open and looking up, while the other looks down.
Next, we divided the video into keyframes using InVID, a video verification tool, and ran reverse image searches on some of them.
This led us to an article by The Sun, which carried a similar visual in an article about fashionable mid-sized outfits.
We came across a similar visual of a woman in a yellow dress in this article.
This article carried a screenshot from the viral video, identifying the woman as TikTok user from the UK.
Here, we saw that the in had shared the viral clip as part of a video about affordable summer dresses on 5 June.
The influencer, Rosie Breen, shared her video on 5 June.
On comparing this clip to the viral video, we noticed similarities.
Conclusion: A video of English social media influencer has been altered to superimpose Bollywood actor Kajol's face on the influencer's body, which has gone viral.
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