At the end of August, a user shared a video of a cloudburst, linking it to the current floods in Pakistan. The text at the top video in Urdu reads "cloudburst scenes." One user comments below the video, suspecting that it was created with AI. The video also already appeared a few weeks earlier on TikTok.

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DW Fact check: False. The video suggests that the cloudburst took place in Pakistan, while acutally, it shows a scene in Australia from 2020. A reverse image search of a screenshot from the video leads to another YouTube upload of 2020. The text on that video says "Kane Artie Photography". Kane Artie is a photographer based in Perth who shared a still from a timelapse video of a microburst in February 2020. It shows the same scene as in the video that is being shared currently in the context with Pakistan. The video has already been used several times in misleading contexts, for instance in connection with a flood disaster in Spain or in Bangalore, India. But it is definitely unrelated to the recent floods in Pakistan and India.

Reviewed by Deutsche Welle ↗ · September 5, 2025