Deepfake videos falsely shared as Modi, President Murmu, and others promoting investment schemes
Multiple videos (here, here, and here) featuring prominent personalities such as the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Reliance Industries Chairman and MD Mukesh Ambani, and Infosys Foundation founder and chairperson Sudha Murthy, discussing an investment platform, guaranteeing results, and encouraging people to invest immediately, are being widely shared on social media. These videos purportedly show them urging Indian citizens to invest ₹22,000 in these income-generating projects, promising returns of several lakhs within a month. Let’s verify the authenticity of these videos.
Claim: Videos of President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and Infosys Foundation chairperson Sudha Murthy promoting an income-generating project and urging people to invest ₹21,000 to receive returns of several lakhs within a month.
Fact: These video clips featuring Modi, President Murmu, Nirmala Sitharaman, and Sudha Murthy endorsing a highly profitable investment project are deepfakes. The original videos have been manipulated using AI-driven facial feature alterations and voice cloning. None of these individuals have promoted any such projects. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
If one carefully observes these viral videos, one can notice discrepancies in the voice and lip movements of these prominent personalities while speaking. This indicates that the videos may have been digitally altered or created using deepfake technology and AI.
To verify further, we conducted a reverse image search of keyframes from the viral video and found that the clip of Nirmala Sitharaman was taken from her interview that was live telecast on the ‘India Today’ YouTube channel on 02 February 2025, where she discussed the Indian Union Budget 2025. In this video, she did not mention any income-generating project offering ₹17 lakh returns for a ₹21,000 investment in 28 days.
A reverse image search of keyframes from the viral video revealed that the clip of President Droupadi Murmu was taken from the video of her address to the nation on the eve of the 74th Republic Day on 25 January 2023. This video was shared on the official YouTube channel of the ‘President of India’ on 25 January 2023. In this video, she did not mention any income-generating project offering returns of several lakhs of rupees for a ₹21,000 investment in 28 days.
A reverse image search of keyframes from the viral video revealed that the clip of Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, was taken from his NDTV interview, which was live-streamed on the official YouTube channels of Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party on 19 May 2024. In this interview, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on diverse topics with NDTV’s Editor-in-Chief, Sanjay Pugalia. In the wide-ranging conversation, they discussed development, infrastructure, governance, the stock market, and much more. In this video, he did not mention any income-generating project offering returns of several lakhs within a month for an investment of ₹22,000.
A reverse image search of keyframes from another viral video revealed that the clip of Mukesh Ambani was taken from the video of his address at the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) 47th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 29 August 2024. During the conference, RIL Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani addressed the company’s stakeholders. This video was live-streamed on the official YouTube channel of ‘Republic TV’ on 29 August 2024. In this meeting, Ambani spoke about the advancements the company is making in the fields of 5G connectivity, artificial intelligence, the growth of its telecommunications subsidiary Jio, and more. However, he did not mention any income-generating project offering returns of ₹15 lakhs for a ₹22,000 investment in 31 days.
Furthermore, AI detection tools like Hive confirmed that the video was manipulated using AI-driven facial feature alterations and voice cloning (here, here, here, here).
Additionally, the links (here, here, here) embedded beneath the viral videos direct users to fraudulent news websites and various unrelated and phishing websites designed to harvest user data.
FACTLY has previously debunked numerous deepfake videos featuring prominent personalities that were designed to scam the public. Relevant fact-check articles can be seen here, here, here, and here.
To sum up, these video clips featuring Modi, President Murmu, Nirmala Sitharaman, and Sudha Murthy endorsing a highly profitable investment project are deepfakes.