{"id":1023974,"date":"2026-07-27T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023974"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:55:55","slug":"ai-deepfake-video-of-piyush-goyal-many-social-media-links-taken-down-fir-registered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/27\/ai-deepfake-video-of-piyush-goyal-many-social-media-links-taken-down-fir-registered\/","title":{"rendered":"AI deepfake video of Piyush Goyal: Many social media links taken down, FIR registered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several social media links carrying an AI-generated deepfake video of Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal have been taken down, government sources said on Saturday, after the minister filed a police complaint over the allegedly manipulated clip that falsely portrayed him making threatening remarks against students protesting over the NEET examination issue. <\/p>\n<p>The purportedly altered video, which surfaced on social media, showed Goyal appearing to issue threats to students participating in the ongoing nationwide protests over alleged irregularities in the NEET examination. Government sources told PTI that many links related to the AI-generated deepfake video have since been removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several social media links carrying an AI-generated deepfake video of Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal have been taken down, government sources said on Saturday, after the minister filed a police complaint over the allegedly manipulated clip that falsely portrayed him making threatening remarks against students protesting over the NEET examination issue. The purportedly altered video, which surfaced on social media, showed Goyal appearing to issue threats to students participating in the ongoing nationwide protests over alleged irregularities in the NEET examination. Government sources told PTI that many links related to the AI-generated deepfake video have since been removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023996,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023974\/revisions\/1023996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}