Numerous accounts on social media circulated a report claiming that Israeli occupation aircraft had launched a series of heavy strikes around the Syrian capital Damascus.
The fact-checking team followed up on the circulating claim and contacted its correspondent in Damascus, who denied the claim and confirmed that conditions in the area were normal and that no Israeli strikes had taken place. Checking the authenticity of the image attached to the claim using the "HIVE MODERATION" tool, which specializes in examining digitally created material, showed that it was entirely generated using artificial intelligence.
Why is this claim misleading?
An event that did not happen and a generated image: The area saw no Israeli strikes, according to Kashaf's correspondent in Damascus, while the image attached to the claim was found to be entirely generated using artificial intelligence.
