The claim
The viral video shows journalist Arnab Goswami reporting that Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a highly profitable investment platform.
Original review summary
FACTLY reports that the viral clip is a deepfake, using unrelated footage of Sitharaman speaking at the 12th SBI Banking and Economics Conclave 2025 in Mumbai. The review says her full speech did not announce such an investment scheme and that Hive’s AI detection tool flagged the clip as 99.7% likely to be a deepfake.[S1]
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Sources and attribution
- [S1] FACTLY original review
Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026
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