DeepfakeMedium
YouTube Channel Reportedly Posts Purported Deepfake Video of Rajat Sharma Announcing India-Bangladesh Conflict
- Occurred
- Sep 29, 2025
- Published
- Oct 7, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A purported deepfake video depicting Indian journalist Rajat Sharma reporting on a potential India-Bangladesh war was uploaded to the YouTube channel The Real Report. Fact-checkers reportedly found no such broadcast existed and, according to their metrics, verified that the clip was likely AI-generated.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown malicious actors impersonating Rajat Sharma
- The Real Report
Harmed parties
- Rajat Sharma
- India-Bangladesh relations
- General public of India
- General public of Bangladesh
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated video impersonating a journalist to spread misinformation about international conflict.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8