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“An unseen photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lakshadweep visit”
Social media posts Claim dated 5 Jan 2024.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE

What FACTLY found

PM Modi shared a series of photos of his visit to the Lakshadweep Islands on his official social media accounts. None of these posts contained the viral photo. Moreover, after running this photo to Hive’s AI detector, Factly found that it could most likely be an AI-generated photo

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

This claim spread on social media around 5 January 2024. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 8 January 2024, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.

Where the claim appeared

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