A purported video showing India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, speaking in Hindi and saying, “Take care of this country, otherwise after 75 years, an uneducated man will divide it on the basis of religion,” is being widely shared across social media platforms (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). The post accompanying this video claims that it shows real footage of Nehru warning Indian citizens in a speech that, after 75 years, an uneducated man would divide the country along religious lines — a statement that has supposedly come true today. Through this article, let us fact-check the authenticity of this viral video.
Claim: Video showing Jawaharlal Nehru saying, “Take care of this country, otherwise after 75 years, an uneducated man will divide it on the basis of religion”.
Fact: This viral video is fake and AI-generated. Several AI detection tools have confirmed that it is AI-generated. There is no evidence to support the claim that Nehru made such statements. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
We conducted a relevant keyword search to determine whether India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, had ever made a statement suggesting that, after several years, an uneducated man would divide the country on the basis of religion. However, this search did not yield any credible reports to support the claim that Nehru made such remarks.
We then analysed the viral video using multiple AI detection tools, including ‘Hiya’ and ‘DeepFake-O-Meter’ developed by the University at Buffalo’s (UB) Media Forensics Lab. These tools confirmed that the video is AI-generated. Hence, it is clear that the viral video is artificially generated.
To sum it up, this viral video claiming to show Nehru warning India about communal politics is AI-generated.
