News video verification
Review news clips for edits, AI generation, and context risk.
Upload or link a news-style clip to receive a truth report for video authenticity.
Last reviewed 2026-05-10 · See methodology
About this check
What Detect Fake News Video actually does.
News-specific video triage. Most fake-news videos are not deepfakes — they are real clips re-captioned, mis-dated, or chopped to imply a different event. The engine combines video-authenticity signals with context risk based on any caption you paste.
How it works
- 1Scene continuity catches edits that splice unrelated footage as one event.
- 2Source-risk indicators weigh metadata cues that suggest re-uploaded or repackaged footage.
- 3Audio-video consistency checks whether voiceover matches the visible action.
When to use it
Real situations this page is built for.
- A breaking-news clip is suddenly going viral on partisan accounts.
- Footage from an old conflict is being claimed as today's events.
- A press-conference clip may have been edited to remove context.
Limitations
Real video presented out of context can pass authenticity checks while still being misleading. Verify the source's claim independently.
Related checks
Honest scope
What this detector does not do.
Naming the gaps explicitly so the score is interpreted in context.
- Whether claims made in the clip are factually true.
- Which deepfake tool produced a manipulated clip.
- Long-form video — the demo focuses on short-form sampling.
FAQ
Detect Fake News Video questions
Will it tell me if a news event actually happened?
No. It tells you whether the video itself looks edited or generated. Event verification requires news-source corroboration.
Does it check the publishing account?
Not in the demo. Paste the publisher URL for context scoring.
Can it spot dubbed-over translations?
Audio-video consistency partly catches this; for voice specifically, use the AI Voice Detector.