Have you seen the viral videos showing mass protests in the streets of British cities? Lead Stories has spotted several such videos recently and found that many were created using artificial intelligence. These videos do not show real peo
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Full Fact→ Teenager did not die after arrest at Sheffield protest
A video of a 17-year-old being detained by police has been shared with false claims that he died.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Chanting, Clapping, And Drumming Protesters In Belfast
Was a video of a crowd of people chanting, clapping, and drumming recorded in Belfast during the June 2026 anti-immigrant protests? No, that's not true: The clip had been online since May of that year. The original caption said it showed
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show People In New York Shooting Fireworks Along The Ground During The 2026 NBA Finals — 2024 Protest In Georgia
Does a video show people in New York shooting fireworks along the ground during the 2026 NBA Finals? No, that's not true: The video is from a 2024 protest in the European country of Georgia and not from New York City following the Knicks'
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Spanish Soccer Star Lamine Yamal Is NOT Missing World Cup In U.S. Over Palestinian Protest, Visa Issues
Is Spanish soccer star Lamine Yamal possibly missing the World Cup in the United States because of a Palestinian protest and visa issues? No, that's not true: There is no evidence supporting the claim that Yamal would miss the World Cup.
Full Fact→ Footage of Spanish football fans shared as Albanian protest
A video shared with claims it shows a protest in Albania against a proposed coastal development plan backed by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner is actually footage of football fans celebrating in Spain.
Full Fact→ Cost of living protest video is AI generated
A clip which appears to show a mass rally and a man criticising rising costs and immigration isn’t genuine, but has been created with artificial intelligence.
Full Fact→ Video of 2025 Unite the Kingdom protest shared as last weekend’s march
Old footage of the September 2025 Unite the Kingdom march on Westminster Bridge is being shared on social media with claims it shows the protest that occurred last weekend.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Donald Trump Post Repeats ‘Merz, Lick Eggs’ Protest Slogan About German Chancellor, Suggests U.S. Might ‘Take Over’ Germany
Did President Donald Trump, in a social media post, repeat the protest slogan "MERZ, LICK EGGS" about the German chancellor and suggest the United States might "take over" Germany? No, that's not true: The supposed post does not appear on
Full Fact→ Video claiming to show 500-strong anti-government protest in Birmingham is AI
A clip which has been liked thousands of times on Facebook uses AI visuals to falsely claim that hundreds staged a protest against the government in Birmingham city centre.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Post Does NOT Prove ‘No Kings’ Rallies Participants Were Paid To Join Protests on March 28, 2026
Does a viral post prove that participants of the "No Kings" rallies in March 2026 were paid hourly to protest? No, that's not true: The claim purporting to show the first-person statement of a real protester was first posted by an account
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – A NYC man did not build this hyper-realistic car out of snow to protest slow snow removal
An Instagram video shows a New York City man sculpting a car out of snow.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: California Did NOT Give Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights $100 Million Mainly To Pay Protesters
Did California pay the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) more than $100 million mainly to fund protests as a viral social media post said? No, that's not true: California's payments to CHIRLA were overwhelmingly tied to immig
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Various People Did NOT Introduce Bill To Block George Soros Funding Protests By Deeming It Organized Crime Under RICO Act
Did various celebrities, including Adam Sandler, Jeanine Pirro and Vince Gill unveil or introduce a "new bill" that would block George Soros from bankrolling protests by classifying such funding as "organized crime under the RICO Act"? No
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Three British Men NOT Jailed Longer Than ‘Illegal Migrant Rapist’ They Protested Against — Men Convicted For Violence, Migrant For Attempted Kissing, Touching Underage Girl, Not Rape
Does a viral post correctly describe two criminal cases when it claims "three British men" were jailed longer than an "illegal migrant rapist" asylum seeker they protested against? No, that's not true: According to court records, the men
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Minneapolis ‘ICE Fishing’ Prank Using Mexican Flag To Waste ICE Agents’ Time — Image From LA Protest
Does a photo show a white American flying a Mexican flag while driving a truck through Minneapolis as a way to make ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents waste their time? No, that's not true: The photo shown in the social post
PolitiFact→ Kash Patel – Are guns barred at protests, as Kash Patel said? In most states, no
“You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Anti-ICE Protesters Did NOT Beat Up Staff At Minneapolis Hotel, NOT TRUE That ‘Police Never Came’
Did a social media post correctly report that anti-ICE protesters at a hotel in Minneapolis started "beating up the staff because two ICE officers were staying there" and that local police were absent from the scene? No, that's not true:
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Critics of Minnesota anti-ICE protests falsely call protesters paid
Protesters against the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota are conducting “fake protests done by agitators and professional insurrectionists. …They're professional troublemakers.”
Full Fact→ Viral video of protesters tearing down Maduro billboard is from 2024
A video shared with captions suggesting it shows Venezuelans ripping down a poster of Nicolás Maduro after he was seized by the United States is not recent, and actually dates back to 2024.
Full Fact→ Video of clashes in Greece shared with claims it shows recent protests in Iran
A viral video shared with claims it shows anti-government protests in Tehran actually shows clashes following a rap concert in Thessaloniki in November 2025.
The Dispatch→ Iran Faces New Protests
Nationwide demonstrations test a regime weakened by war and internal division.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Iran’s Crown Prince-In-Exile Reza Pahlavi Being Cheered In Egypt In January 2026 — It’s The UK in 2023 Amid Protests In Iran
Does a video show Iran's crown prince-in-exile Reza Pahlavi being cheered in Cairo, Egypt, as protests in Iran intensified in January 2026? No, that's not true: The video shows Pahlavi being cheered in Oxford, England in February 2023. A
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Anti-ICE Protester Sentenced To Six Months In Jail And $10,000 Fine For Throwing Trash Can At Officer Is NOT Real
Is a viral video of a purple-haired woman being sentenced to six months in jail and a $10,000 fine for attacking a law enforcement officer with a metal trash can during an anti-ICE protest real? No, that's not true: The original version o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Muslims Protesting A Christmas Fair In Germany — Clip From Pro-Palestinian Anti-Israel March First Appeared October, 2024
Does a viral video show Muslims protesting against a Christmas fair in Germany? No, that's not true: The video has circulated since October, 12, 2024, showing a demonstration in Hamburg, Germany, against Israel and in solidarity with Pale
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fake Video Of Shouting Protester Getting Pepper Sprayed In The Face By A Riot Police Officer — It’s AI-Generated
Does a video show the moment when a fed-up riot police officer pepper sprays a shouting protester in the face? No, that's not true: This video is AI-generated. A glitch that gives away the AI origin is that the pepper spray canister falls
PolitiFact→ X posts – Video that supposedly shows ‘No Kings’ protest in the United Kingdom isn’t real; it’s AI
Video shows “No Kings” protest in the United Kingdom.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: MSNBC Did NOT Broadcast Old Footage From 2017 — Video Really Shows Boston’s Oct. 2025 No Kings Protest
Did MSNBC air old 2017 footage of a large crowd in Boston Common and misrepresent it as live footage of the Oct.2025 No Kings protest? No, that's not true: The footage shows the October 18, 2025 No Kings protest as it was taking place. Th
Full Fact→ Video of ‘anti-fascists’ being attacked is AI deepfake of Portsmouth protest
A video showing a group of people with an anti-fascist flag being attacked isn’t real—it’s an AI deepfake made using an old image.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘No Queso! No Cheese!’ Protest Video Is FAKE
Does a viral video of a protester chanting "No queso! No cheese!" before being sprayed with orange-colored gas by law enforcement show a real-life scene? No, that's not true: A prominent watermark identified the video as having been gener
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Showing "Sergeant Pepper" Spraying A Shouting Protester In The Face Is NOT Real — Made With AI Video App
Does a video show a real confrontation between a shouting protester and a man in uniform who identifies himself as Sgt. Pepper? No, that's not true: This video has a watermark from Sora, an app from Open AI that generates videos from text
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Portland ICE protests have not led to the city’s ‘burning to the ground’
“Portland is burning to the ground.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: India’s Telemarketers Did NOT Threaten To Go On Strike To Protest Trump Tariffs
Did "all of India's telemarketers" threaten "to go on strike permanently" if the U.S. places increased tariffs on imports from that country? No, that's not true: No media organizations reported that. The viral post that resurfaced at the
Full Fact→ No, a Met Police video of the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally didn’t show a 2020 protest
The AI chatbot Grok and some social media users wrongly claimed the footage was years old and from an anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Man In Union Jack Underpants Throwing Water Over Palestinian Protest Speaker
Is a video that shows a man in Union Jack underwear throwing water over a Palestinian protester authentic? No, that's not true: The video appears to be AI generated using a still image of British MP Zarah Sultana that has been publicly av
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show ISIS Parading Caged Yazidi Women In Mosul Before Burning Them To Death – It’s A 2013 Street Protest In Egypt
Does a viral photo document ISIS militants parading caged Yazidi women through Mosul, Iraq in 2016 before burning them to death? No, that's not true: The photo was taken in Alexandria, Egypt in 2013. It appeared in the Sharkia Today news
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Shows Veterans Protesting ‘Gaza Genocide’, NOT Military Pilots Arrested For Refusing To Fly Armed Planes To Israel
Does a viral video show two military pilots arrested for refusing to fly armed planes to Israel? No, that's not true: A video with a false caption has gone viral more than two weeks after it was filmed. The chaotic scene was filmed on Sep
Full Fact→ Image of crowd waving Union Jacks isn’t from recent London protest and is almost certainly AI
The picture was shared after the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally—but it isn’t real.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Banksy London Wall Art Did NOT Show Judge Striking Protester Holding English Flag — It Was A White Placard Splashed With Blood
Did a mural painted by Banksy on a wall at London's Royal Courts of Justice depict a judge striking a protester lying on the ground and holding an English flag? No, that's not true: The original Banksy wall art featured a protester holdin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Banksy London Wall Art Did NOT Show Judge Striking Protester Holding English Flag — It Was A White Placard Splashed With Blood
Did a mural painted by Banksy on a wall at London's Royal Courts of Justice depict a judge striking a protester lying on the ground and holding an English flag? No, that's not true: The original Banksy wall art featured a protester holdin