Fact Check: FAKE 'Before Patriot Front' Video Seems To Show Woman From Reuters Photo--But It Was Made With Google AI 7%
By Sarah Thompson0%
7/6/2026, 11:27:32 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 28 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Begging the Question, and Negativity Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 29% saturation with 239 hits. Analysis detected 1,618 faulty-reasoning hits from 823 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22.6% and a BS Rank of 7% (20,545 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.90% of the article peer group.
Does a real video show inappropriate "before" behavior by a woman later photographed surrounded by Patriot Front on a Metro train on July 4, 2026?
No, that's not true: The video captioned, "before Patriot Front" is fake.
Google's Gemini verification tool determined the video "was edited or generated using Google AI" and there were visual glitches such as a missing reflection that further proved the video was not real.
The 15-second video appeared in a post published by the X account @ryanasanchez on July 6, 2026 (archived here ).
The post was captioned:
The "tough lady" in question:
This is a screenshot of the video:
(Image source: Post by @ryanasanchez on X.)
The first eight seconds of the 15-second video show a woman kneeling and bent forward on the floor pulling down her shorts and then standing up and pulling her shorts back up.
A semi-transparent black text box obscures an indecipherable social media handle (pictured above).
A legible caption in white letters reads:
BEFORE PATRIOT FRONT
At nine seconds the video cuts to a still image which is a real Reuters press photo taken on July 4, 2026.
The caption of the photo appearing at reutersconnect.com is:
A commuter sits as members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence on the Fourth of July in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026.
REUTERS/Cheney Orr TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Also at nine seconds, the @ryanasanchez video shows a text box overlaid on the still image (pictured below) .
It reads:
Lead Stories took the eight-second clip from the first portion of the video and uploaded it to Google Gemini, asking if there was a SynthID watermark.
The reply (pictured below) said in part:
The video you shared was edited or generated using Google AI, as indicated by SynthID signals detected in both its visuals and audio.
(Image source: gemini.google.com.)
Google's DeepMind watermark called SynthID (archived here ) is detectable by their own verification tools but not visible to the human eye.
One glitch visible in the video -- typical of AI-generated flaws -- is the reflection in the Metro train window.
The seats and railings are reflected, but the blue plastic bag on the seat is not reflected (pictured below).
Sarah Thompson lives with her family and pets on a small farm in Indiana.
She founded a Facebook page and a blog called "Exploiting the Niche" in 2017 to help others learn about manipulative tactics and avoid scams on social media.
Since then she has collaborated with journalists in the USA, Canada and Australia and since December 2019 she works as a Social Media Authenticity Analyst at Lead Stories.
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