Is This a Clip of Israel’s Tel Aviv Airport After Iranian Strikes? No, It’s AI

The video is not real and was made using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.

A video showing a damaged airport with a lot of rubble is being shared on social media, claiming that shows the Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel's Tel Aviv, after it was targeted by Iran.

• Users are sharing it with a caption that reads, "This is not AI this is real TelAviv Airport (sic)."

(Archives of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, and here.)

Is it true?: No, the video was made using Artificial Intelligence (AI).

How did we find out the truth?: We ran a reverse image on some frames of the video using Google Lens.

• We noticed that no credible source had shared this video, but were able to trace it back to an Instagram account which had shared this video on 27 May.

• It means that this video predates the recent round of conflict between Israel and Iran, during which the airport in Tel Aviv was targeted.

• Additionally, the account's bio mentioned the use of AI.

• We also noticed that it routinely shared AI-generated videos.

• Next, we submitted this video to Hive Moderation's AI-generated content detector.

• Their tool was 99.1 percent confident that the video was "likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content."

• Lastly, we compared an overhead visual of the Ben Gurion Airport to the visuals in the video.

• The two do not resemble each other, confirming that the video doesn't authentically show what it claims.

Conclusion: An AI-generated video is being shared to claim that it shows the real condition of Israel's Tel Aviv airport after it was struck during Iranian strikes.

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