{"id":551674,"date":"2026-07-21T04:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/551674\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:01:12","slug":"fact-check-fake-video-of-ied-attack-on-m1a-abrams-tanks-driving-over-bridge-in-southern-lebanon-ai-generated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/551674\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: FAKE Video Of IED Attack On M1A Abrams Tanks Driving Over Bridge In Southern Lebanon — AI-Generated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does a video show an ambush or IED attack on a convoy of M1A Abrams tanks crossing a bridge? No, that’s not true: This video is fake. It circulated on social media in early April 2026 with captions claiming it showed Israeli tanks attacked by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The Hive Moderation AI-generated content detection tool rated one early copy of the video 99.9% likely to be AI-generated. Several fact checks were published at the time in English, Turkish, French, and Arabic.<\/p>\n

The video resurfaced in a post<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) published by the X account @WarArchiveClips on July 15, 2026. It was captioned:<\/p>\n

Is this IED [sic] attack or ambush [sic]<\/p>\n

This is a screenshot from that post on X:<\/p>\n

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Image source: @WarArchiveClips post on X.<\/p>\n

Lead Stories uncovered earlier copies of the video using Google Lens reverse image search (archived here<\/a>). Two copies of the video were published on April 8, 2026, one on X<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) and one on Facebook<\/a> (archived here<\/a>). The Facebook post was captioned in Arabic; an automatic translation reads:<\/p>\n

I swear by the Almighty that no one in the Israeli entity has ever done what the Great Power of the East has done.<\/p>\n

Lead Stories uploaded the April 8, 2026, video from Facebook to the Hive Moderation AI-generated content detection tool (archived here<\/a>). The result said the input is 99.9% likely to contain AI-generated content (pictured below).<\/p>\n

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Image source: Hive Moderation.<\/p>\n

The GIF below (slowed down detail) shows a glitch in the AI-generated scene. As the first tank is crossing the bridge it lurches upward for no reason before the explosion even happens.<\/p>\n

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Image source: Facebook post.<\/p>\n

Several fact checks about this video were published in April 2026 in at least four languages. On April 9, 2026, fact checks were published by Teyit<\/a> in Turkish (archived here<\/a>), RFI<\/a> in French (archived here<\/a>), and An-Nahar Newspaper<\/a> in Arabic (archived here<\/a>). On April 10, 2026, another Arabic fact check was published by CNN Arabic<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) and Pesacheck<\/a> followed with an English-language fact check on April 16, 2026 (archived here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does a video show an ambush or IED attack on a convoy of M1A Abrams tanks crossing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2257,250545,85,46,250546,230122,105],"class_list":["post-551674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-facebook","tag-ied-attack","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israeli-tanks","tag-lead-stories","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}