Several users on multiple social media platforms have since Sunday shared a video showing a woman opening fire after a man on a motorcycle allegedly tries to approach her. However, the video is AI-generated.
How it started
On Sunday, a social media user shared a video on X showing a man on a motorcycle approaching a woman walking in the street. He closes in with a 180 degree drift, after which the woman wearing a burka pulls out a gun and fires in the man’s direction, causing him to run away from the scene.
The post attracted 333,000 views.
An Indian account shared the same video on Instagram in a similar context. The post got about 171,000 likes.
Another Instagram user shared the same video in a similar context and got 34,300 likes.
Another Indian user shared the viral clip captioned: “When a Karan Johar’s film hero meets Anurag Kashyap’s film heroine”. The post got 170,000 views on X.
Similarly, the video was shared by several other users on social media platforms Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedInand X, as can be seen here, here, here, here, here and here; together achieved 10,000 views.
Methodology
A fact check was launched to determine the truth of the claim due to its high virality and high public interest in the video.
A frame-by-frame analysis of the video to identify visual inconsistencies showed that the man appears to stop the motorcycle in a stunt-like 180-degree operation that is unusually smooth, while no skid marks were seen on the road.
Second, at the 1-second mark, the gun suddenly appears in the woman’s hand as if transforming into the video.
At the 4-second mark, the dust cloud produced by the woman’s shot at the road appears unusually large and thick, despite the fact that the road is made of asphalt. An asphalt road would not normally produce such heavy dust from a simple shot.
Similarly, when the man flees on the motorcycle, the rear wheel appears to produce a correspondingly large amount of dust on an otherwise clean asphalt road.
The video was further analyzed using AI detection tools with Hive Moderation labeling the video as 94.2 percent AI-generated, while Deepfake Detection labeled it 97pc AI-generated.
X also flagged the video as AI-generated content on a post that had shared the cut.
Furthermore, a reverse image search revealed that the same video was originally submitted of an Instagram account that repeatedly shares similar AI-generated videos, as seen by previous posts. The video was shared on June 27, 2026, and it was the oldest found on the Internet.
Fact check status: false
The claim that a viral video shows a woman shooting a harasser on a motorcycle is False.
The video is AI generated.
This fact check was originally published by iVerify Pakistan — a project of CEJ-IBA and UNDP.
