Since Sunday, several users on several social media platforms shared a video showing a woman opening fire after a man on a motorcycle allegedly tried to approach her. However, the video is generated by AI.
How it started
Sunday, a social media user common a video on X showing a man on a motorcycle approaching a woman walking in the street. He approaches with a 180-degree drift, after which the woman, dressed in a burqa, pulls out a pistol and fires in the direction of the man, prompting him to flee the scene.
The post attracted 333,000 views.
An Indian account common the same video on Instagram in a similar context. The post garnered around 171,000 likes.
Another Instagram user common the same video in a similar context, gaining 34,300 likes.
Another Indian user common the viral clip with the caption: “When Karan Johar’s movie hero meets Anurag Kashyap’s movie heroine.” The post has been viewed 170,000 times on X.
Likewise, the video was shared by several other users on social media platforms. Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedInand X, as we can see here, here, here, here, here And here; collectively gaining 10,000 views.
Methodology
A fact check was launched to determine the veracity of this claim due to its high virality and strong public interest in the video.
Frame-by-frame analysis of the video to identify visual discrepancies showed that the man appears to stop the motorcycle in an unusually smooth, stunt-like 180-degree drift, while no skid marks were seen on the road.
Second, after a second, the gun suddenly appears in the woman’s hand, as if turning into a video.
After 4 seconds, the dust cloud produced after the woman shot the road appears unusually large and thick, even though the road is asphalt. An asphalt road would not normally produce such thick dust from a single gunshot.
Likewise, when the man flees on the motorcycle, the rear wheel appears to produce an equally large amount of dust on an otherwise clean asphalt road.
The video was then analyzed using AI detection tools, with Hive Moderation labeling the video as 94.2% AI-generated, while Deepfake Detection labeled it as 97% AI-generated.
X also marked the video as AI-generated content on a post that had common the clip.
Additionally, a reverse image search revealed that the same video was originally job by an Instagram account that repeatedly shares similar AI-generated videos, as seen in its previous posts. The video was shared on June 27, 2026 and it was the oldest found on the Internet.
Fact Check Status: False
Claim that viral video shows woman shooting stalker on motorcycle is FAKE.
The video is generated by AI.
This fact check was originally published by iVerify Pakistan — a project of CEJ-IBA and UNDP.
