Synthetic video falsely shows school flooding during ‘Tino’
- FactRakers
- Nov 18, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 19, 2025
A viral TikTok video has falsely portrayed students and teachers clinging to chairs as floodwater above the knee ravaged a classroom supposedly during the onslaught of typhoon “Tino” (Kalmaegi), a scene that AI indicators and detection tools suggest was artificially generated.
TikTok user @worlddisasterupdate posted the video on Nov. 6 at 10:55 p.m., several hours after Tino left the Philippine area of responsibility, claiming:
Philippines Flood Disaster: School Flooded in Seconds! 🌊 Real Chaos Caught on Camera
Massive flooding struck a local school in the Philippines as Typhoon Kalmaegi unleashed heavy rain. Within minutes, classrooms filled with water — teachers and students struggled to escape. Watch this shocking moment caught on camera.
It used the tags: Philippines flood 2025, Bagyong Kalmaegi update, school flood Philippines, disaster viral shorts, flood caught on camera, world disaster update, Philippines typhoon latest, real flood footage, viral storm video 2025, and breaking flood news today.
Although the account did not disclose the post as generated by AI, TikTok labeled the video as “completely generated or significantly edited with AI.”
AI detection tool Hive found a 99% likelihood the video was AI-generated. WasItAI, a similar tool, likewise reported high confidence that a screenshot from the clip was created using AI.
Frames from the video show distorted faces and body parts typical of indicating synthetic content.
For example, the faces of students and a teacher at the 0:00 mark lack key features such as eyesockets while a student’s face does not match the color of their feet at 0:05.
World Disaster Update has created similar videos on Typhoon Uwan (Fung-wong) and Opong (Bualoi) and the twin quakes in Davao Oriental. The TikTok user’s bio says: "AI-powered Breaking News 🌎 Earthquakes, Floods & Global Disasters and incidents."
While Hive did not detect the model used in the Tino video, another video the account posted wrote ‘Sora 2 realistic animation’ in the caption.
The TikTok page, containing a subscription button, bears the link to a Facebook account named Faizullah Baig (World Disaster Update).
The Nov. 6 TikTok video on typhoon Tino spread widely on Facebook. The reel posted by Kv Thiaf Ffotsirk Aretnom on Nov. 7 had the most engagement and bore the caption:
Jusko ang mga bata (My god the children) #bagyongtino #bangoncebu (#typhoontino #riseupcebu) #cttoOfvideonotmine
It superimposed the text, “pray for the Philippines 👇🙏”
A few Facebook users noticed the content as AI-generated but many expressed worry, concern and sympathy.
No video has surfaced showing students and teachers trapped in a classroom during Tino. However, schools incurred heavy damage from the typhoon.
Photos from SunStar show destroyed classrooms in Owak Elementary School in Asturias, Cebu.
The Department of Education’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service noted in its Rapid Damage Assessments over 380 schools incurring infrastructure damage.
It listed over 1,200 classrooms with minor damage, 592 with major damage, and 309 as totally damaged.
The TikTok video has garnered over 3.8 million views, 82,000 likes, 5,600 shares and 3,000 comments while the Facebook reel has over 3.3 million views, 52,000 reactions, 3,400 shares and 3,000 comments. (SGL)
