Update (08 October 2024):
Another video (archive) of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, supposedly promoting a joint pain medicine, is widely shared on social media. However, this video has been digitally altered by adding Yogi Adityanath’s AI-cloned voice. In the original video (here & here), he can be seen discussing the tourism sector in Uttar Pradesh, with no mention of any joint pain medicine. Moreover, AI detection tools have identified this video as manipulated with an AI voice clone.
Update (26 July 2024):
Another set of videos (here, here, here) of prominent journalists promoting a pain relief cream is being posted on social media. However, these videos are digitally altered and none of these journalists have promoted such a pain relief cream in real. Factly had previously (here, here) debunked similar altered videos of prominent personalities promoting medicines for various ailments.
Published (28 September 2023):
A video claiming that an Indian doctor has developed a remedy for joint pain is circulating extensively on Facebook. The video, seemingly presented as a news report by renowned journalist Anjana Om Kashyap, also asserts that pharmaceutical companies are exerting pressure to conceal information regarding this medication. Through this article let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: News report claiming that an Indian doctor has developed a remedy for joint pain.
Fact: The video has been digitally fabricated by superimposing a voiceover onto unrelated visuals featuring the news journalist. There are no news reports or medical journals about any breakthrough medicine for joint pains or arthritis, by an Indian doctor. Further, the website link provided is also inactive, suggesting that the news is not authentic. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
The viral video asserting the existence of a joint pain remedy lacks essential information about both the doctor and the medicine. Additionally, the website link shared in the viral Facebook post is inactive, raising doubts about the authenticity of the claim. Furthermore, a comprehensive keyword search on the internet failed to produce any news reports or scientific journal articles of an Indian doctor discovering a groundbreaking solution for joint pain. If such an invention had genuinely been made, it would likely have garnered media attention. Nonetheless, no credible reports confirming this claim were discovered.
Furthermore, the video appears to be a news report presented by a journalist, but we could not find any report by the said journalist covering such a joint pain remedy. This strongly suggests that the video has been digitally fabricated by superimposing a voiceover onto unrelated visuals featuring the news journalist.
Moreover, the video includes visuals of Deepak Chopra, an Indian American author and proponent of alternative medicine, seemingly endorsing the alleged remedy. Nevertheless, our search yielded no evidence of him endorsing or discussing such a medicine. The visuals of Deepak Chopra are extracted from one of his interviews, where he talks about varied topics.
To sum it up, this news report on the breakthrough invention of joint pain medicine by an Indian doctor is digitally fabricated.
