A video purportedly showing a huge Palestinian flag being unfurled atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, amid ongoing protests has gone viral on social media. Users sharing the clip claim that protesters raised the Palestinian flag instead of the French flag during demonstrations over rising living costs and public services.
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NM VERIFIED
NewsMobile verified the claim and found that the video is AI-generated.
The NM team initiated its verification by conducting a reverse image search on keyframes from the viral video to establish their origin. The search led to an Instagram account, Jaranor Films, which published the original Eiffel Tower video and explicitly identified it as AI-generated content. The account’s bio also states that it shares audiovisual and AI-generated material. Further reverse image searches did not yield credible news reports confirming that protesters had recently hoisted a Palestinian flag at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
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We further tested the viral video using Hive Moderation, an AI-detection tool, which flagged the footage as 52% likely to be AI-generated.
Hence, it is evident that the viral video claiming to show a Palestinian flag being unfurled atop the Eiffel Tower is AI-generated.
