A video has begun circulating online allegedly showing two trucks mounted with anti-smog guns in Lahore colliding, sparking a debate online about the wastage of public funds.
The claim is false.
On November 2, a user on X, formerly known as Twitter, shared an 11-second video supposedly showing two anti-smog gun machines ramming into each other in Lahore.
“Is this video real? The anti-smog vehicles that were brought in yesterday reportedly collided with each other,” wrote the user in Urdu.
In the video, a person can be heard narrating that the anti-smog vehicles have just crashed in Lahore and also injured a motorcyclist. The video has been viewed over 130,000 times and reposted more than 300 times to date.
Similar claims were also shared on X here, here and here.
The video being circulated online about two trucks carrying anti-smog guns is not genuine.
Hive Moderation, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) content detection tool, found the footage was 99% likely to have been created using AI tools.
There are also several inconsistencies in the video, which suggest that it was AI-generated.
For example, one person holding a phone has unnaturally long fingers, while another person, who otherwise is wearing blue clothes, has a sleeve of a different colour.
Additionally, the uniform seen in the video on a police officer in Lahore does not match the ones currently worn by the city’s police.
Neither do the anti-smog trucks seen in the video resemble the real ones being used in Lahore. Below is an image of the actual trucks deployed by the Punjab government.
Verdict: No such incident occurred, and the vehicles seen in the clip do not match the real anti-smog trucks currently being used by the Punjab government.
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