A video purportedly featuring News18 managing editor Amish Devgan with Home Minister Amit Shah , in which he is seen holding Shah's shoe with both hands to help Shah lift his leg, is being widely circulated on social media.

Those sharing the video have criticised this act and the state of journalism in India.

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here .)

Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false as the viral video is manipulated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

What we found: At first, we divided the viral video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

This led us to a YouTube video dated 23 May 2024 , on the News18 MP Chhattisgarh channel, featuring an interview with Shah by Devgan.

This interview took place

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