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The viral image of Sonia Gandhi smoking a cigarette is digitally edited

The viral image of Sonia Gandhi smoking a cigarette is not real, it was digitally edited using an AI tool.

A black-and-white image of former Congress President Sonia Gandhi smoking a cigarette has been going viral on social media. But when we investigated this picture, we found that it is a false image that was altered and produced. Let’s see what is the reality of this Image.

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Fact Check- 

By closely observing the viral image, we found that Remaker was written in the lower corner of the picture. Remaker is an is an editing tool which uses artificial intelligence to perform various functions like face swap in images and videos. With this tool face swap, we can replace one person’s face with another person’s face in a picture. Sonia Gandhi’s face can be edited in this picture using this tool.

When we checked the image by doing a reverse image search on Google, we received the original image. The original picture is of an Iranian woman. Farzad Sarfarazi, an Iranian photographer, captured this picture in 2012.

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You can see a comparison of both images below.

Conclusion- 

Fact Crescendo found that the viral image of Sonia Gandhi smoking a cigarette is fake; it was digitally edited using an AI tool.

Title:The viral image of Sonia Gandhi smoking a cigarette is digitally edited

Fact Check By: Usha Manoj

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Usha Manoj

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