Claim
UK newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, calls the Pakistan Air Force as the “King of the Skies”.
The archived version of the post can be seen here, which has clocked 604.3K views so far.
Fact
Newschecker noticed that the dateline in the masthead did not include the year of issue, while the URL is supposed to be reading “.co.uk” and not “,cuk”, indicating that it was fabricated.
We then ran a keyword search for “The Daily Telegraph PAF King Of the Skies”, which did not lead us to any such report by the British daily broadsheet newspaper. We looked up the May 10, 2025 issue of the Daily Telegraph available online and did not find any such page nor report.
Newschecker then found an uncropped version of the viral newspaper screengrab, uploaded on X on May 11, 2025, where the garbled and nonsensical text, jumbled sentences and incorrect spellings, suggest that it was AI-generated.
We ran the image past WasitAI, an AI-content detector, which said it was quite confident that the image, or significant part of it, was created by AI. The Decopy AI detection tool said it was 100% likely to be AI-generated, further confirming that the viral “news report” was fake.
Source
Image analysis
The Daily Telegraph, May 10, 2025, pressreader.com
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