A video which purportedly shows Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talking about an investment platform which promises steady, passive income to those who use it is being shared on social media.
What does she say?: She says that the government is "introducing a program that provides a stable daily income from day 1," which would help people make "65 thousand rupees per day, enough to cover all your expenses and improve your quality of life."
With a "small investment of 20 thousand rupees," people would be able to passively and consistently make money up to 20 lakh rupees every month, the clip adds, urging people to click the provided lin and fill up the registration form."
But...?: The information in the video has not been shared by any credible sources and the clip itself has been altered using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.
How do we know?: A simple reverse image search on the viral video led us to a video uploaded by India Today, which said that it showed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaking at the Indian High Commission in London.
In her speech, the finance minister spoke about investment opportunities in India, outlining the government's efforts towards sustaining economic growth in the country.
She went on to talk about the changing geopolitical dynamics for India, rural development, better agricultural production, improved export promotion, among other factors to ensure that "India remains resilient in the face of external challenges while leveraging domestic economic strength."
The video made no mention of any investment opportunity promising passive income.
Since there were no credible reports, visuals, or official announcements like the clip in the claim, we ran the video through AI generated content detectors.
Hive Moderation's tool gave the audio and video elements a zero percent chance of being authentic.
Contrails' tool, too, found that both elements had been manipulated with.
An expert's note in the report said that it had found that their model had "predicted this as AI-manipulated with fairly high confidence," while commenting on the audio and video elements.
Conclusion: A video, which was manipulated using AI, was shared to falsely claim that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman promoted an investment app.
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