The news of Mashrafe’s arrest is fake, the pictures-videos are created by AI

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An 8-second video with the caption ‘Just received news, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has been arrested’ has been spread on social media.

In the video, a reporter with a boom in his hand is saying, “Look, the famous Bangladeshi cricketer and one-time MP has been arrested by the police.” At this time, the former captain of the Bangladesh national men’s cricket team and former member of parliament, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, is seen walking with two policemen while handcuffed behind.

However, after checking the video, several inconsistencies were found in it. In the background of the video, writing on the wall of a building reads, ‘Dhaka Kendra Jail and Adjacent Thana Administration and Security Centre’. But in reality, the name plate of Dhaka Central Jail says ‘Dhaka Central Jail, Keraniganj’. There is no section called ‘Adjacent Police Station Administration and Security Centre’. Apart from this, the word ‘Central’ is also misspelled.

It is also seen in the video, suddenly a meaningless text like ‘Anireditra j Syanri Kadra’ appears in obscure Bengali characters. The video also shows unusual inconsistencies between the spoken reporter’s speech, lip movements and surroundings.

These topics are usually contained in artificial intelligence-generated content. As a result, doubts are also created about this video.

Then, if you look closely at the video, you can see a sign written ‘Veo’ in the lower left corner of it. A ‘Veo’ symbol on a video means it is not a video captured on a real camera; Content created or edited with the help of Google’s AI technology. As a result, it becomes more clear that the video in question is also created using artificial intelligence.

For further verification, the video is analyzed on the AI ​​detection tool ‘Hive Moderation’ which also shows a high probability of the video being AI-based content.

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Not just the video, a photocard has also gone viral on social media with the same claim. There, a photo card modeled after the photo card of “Yamuna Television” claimed, “The arrestee is MP Mashrafe Bin Mortaza”. A picture of Mashrafe was also added to it.

However, on verification, Jamuna TV has not published any such photocard. Even after monitoring Yamuna TV’s Facebook page, website and YouTube channel, no news or photocards were found in this regard. Rather, a comparison of the viral card with their original photocard reveals a clear difference in the font, design and text layout of the title.

An analysis of the photo used in the photocard has not yielded any reliable information to support its authenticity. Later, when the image is checked with Google’s AI identification technology ‘SynthID’, it can be seen that the whole or a large part of the image has been created or edited using Google’s AI technology.

Apart from this, there is no information found in any reliable media that Mashrafe has been arrested. It was normal for the news to come in the country’s media when a popular person like Mashrafe was arrested.

A look at the comments on the video and photocard posts circulating on social media about the arrest of Mashrafe Bin Murtaza shows that some have accepted the news as true. But the news is not true, AI-generated pictures and videos are creating this confusion.