“The images show Tamil Nadu CM C. Joseph Vijay touching the feet of Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi during his swearing-in ceremony.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 12 May 2026.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The viral images are not real visuals from the swearing-in ceremony, they are AI-generated. AI detection tools flagged the images with aggregate scores of 98.7% and 79.8%, suggesting that they are fake or digitally manipulated.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 12 May 2026. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 18 May 2026, 6 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/lakhanbhaiji/posts/pfbid0o1fQiyUmczVqdigQTkLZfkWJT5g13qrSmB8yvjV…
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