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Pro-Palestine rally in Japan deepfake (Aug 2025)
An AI-generated video showing a massive pro-Palestine rally was shared online, falsely claiming it depicted a real demonstration in Japan. The video, identified as AI-generated by SynthID and Hive, showed…
- Incident date
- Aug 2025
- Target
- Pro-Palestine rally in Japan
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
An AI-generated video showing a massive pro-Palestine rally was shared online, falsely claiming it depicted a real demonstration in Japan. The video, identified as AI-generated by SynthID and Hive, showed inconsistencies like illogical crowd distribution and was traced back to a TikTok account specializing in AI-generated content. While real pro-Palestine protests have occurred in Japan, this specific video is unrelated and misleading.