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Catfish are swimming through flooded Bangkok streets?
Checked 8 Oct 2026
The video showing catfish swimming through flooded Bangkok streets is fake. An India Today Fact Check confirmed the footage is AI-generated, and no credible news reports of this event exist.
Main source: India Today
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It wants you to think: "The visual evidence of catfish swimming in the streets is a real, documented consequence of the Bangkok floods."
India Today Fact Check found the video to be AI-generated. While Bangkok has experienced real flooding, nothing in the evidence shows this specific scene of a school of catfish swimming down a city road is real.
- Presenting AI as real footage: "Bangkok Floodwaters Turn Streets into Rivers as Catfish Swim Through the City". The creator presents a highly unusual, AI-generated video of fish swimming in streets as a real news event, mixing it with actual flood statistics to make the fake footage seem credible.
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