Deepfake Video of Emir of Qatar Insulting Donald Trump Goes Viral

A video showing the Emir of Qatar, US President Donald Trump is going viral online.

This comes after Trump's recent visit to Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE.

He states that Trump is a “robber who desires luxury items from them and craves media attention".

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What's the truth?: This video has been altered using AI technology and is not real.

• The original video dates back to 2017.

How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search on some of the keyframes of the viral video which led us to the original video shared by Al Jazeera English on 30 October 2017.

• This interview is from a CBS ‘60 Minutes’ interview and shows the Emir of Qatar discussing Qatar’s diplomatic crisis with other Gulf countries and leadership.

• In the original video, he does not make any statements criticizing Trump as shown in the viral video.

• We also performed a relevant keyword search on Google but did not find any credible reports that would support this claim.

AI manipulation: We noticed unnatural movements around Tamim’s eyes and mouth signaling AI manipulation.

• We analysed the video’s audio using several AI-detection tool, Hive Moderation, which confirmed that the audio is AI-generated and manipulated.

Conclusion: A deepfake video of Emir of Qatar criticising Donald Trump is going viral as real.

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