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Lead Stories says: AI Video
Does a viral video capture a real fight between Brazilian soccer players Neymar and Robinho Júnior? No, that's not true: The clip contained glitches typical of AI-generated content. Neymar was not part of that soccer club when the video's timestamp suggested the incident took place.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X on May 5, 2026. The Arabic caption opened:
As translated into English by DeepL, it read:
This is what a thumbnail from the attached 12-second video looked like on X at the time of writing:
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Image source: post by @ALDERBYSHOW on X.
The post referred to Brazilian soccer player Robinho Júnior (archived here) and the Santos FC team (archived here).
The video's timestamp showed a specific date: November 20, 2024. However, news of Neymar rejoining Santos after a 12-year gap broke only on January 28, 2025, as reported by the AP (archived here).
Despite the implication that the viral clip was a real CCTV recording, the timestamp in the top left corner remains the same for the duration of the video:
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Image source: post by @ALDERBYSHOW on X.
At the 00:09 mark, the symbols on the t-shirt supposedly worn by "Neymar" only remotely resemble English or Portuguese letters:
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Image source: post by @ALDERBYSHOW on X.
Furthermore, at the 00:10 mark, "Robinho Júnior" appears walk through the fence as if his body could have passed through it seamlessly in real life:
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Image source: post by @ALDERBYSHOW on X.
The Hive Moderation AI detection tool concluded that the video had an 83.3% probability of being a product of generative AI:
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Image source: Hive Moderation.
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