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An AI-Generated Video Is Falsely Shared as Real Footage of a Lion Entering a Store in South Africa

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A video (here, here, and here) showing a lion casually walking into a supermarket and feeding on meat is going viral on social media, with users claiming it captures a real incident from South Africa. We will fact-check this claim through this article. An archived version of this post can be found here.  Claim: The video shows a lion entering a store in South Africa and eating meat.Fact: The video is AI-generated and does not depict a real incid…

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A video that shows a lion walking through the meat corridors of a supermarket went viral on TikTok and Instagram, and many users claimed it was recorded in South Africa. However, it is an animation generated by artificial intelligence. There are no official records of the fact and several local media, such as News24, already denied it. The post A lion enters to eat meat in a supermarket: #Falso appeared first on Fast Check .

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Fast Check CL broke the news in on Thursday, June 19, 2025.
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