viral video Shared by X British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has claimed to have admitted making allegations about Jimmy Savile, calling them “frivolous”.
For those who haven't seen it yet, Keir Starmer admits he was aware of the Jimmy Savile investigation but stopped because he thought the allegations were “frivolous”.
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This claim is false because the videos are processed using artificial intelligence (AI). An AI expert labeled the video a “deepfake” in an email to Check Your Fact.
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The X-video, which has been viewed more than 800,000 times, purports to show Starmer admitting the claims about Savile were “frivolous”.
“Of course I knew about the Jimmy Savile investigation. At the time I thought there was simply no evidence and the testimony was not convincing. I also thought that Savile did not have a very good standing among people. The threshold for taking any action was always high, and some of the claims felt a little frivolous at the time. “I felt that way,” Starmer was quoted as saying.
That claim is false. We conducted Check Your Fact Content detection scan Using the website TrueMedia.org, we found that the video showed “significant evidence of manipulation,” including “duplicating or producing audio.” in original videoIn the article, which was shared to YouTube by the Guardian in 2012, Starmer discusses freedom of speech and prosecution guidelines for cases involving threats made on social media. According to the same video, Starmer was Britain's Director of Public Prosecutions at the time.
Similarly, Starmer press release or socializing media statement Comment publicly on this claim. Additionally, we found “Check the facts” There are no reliable reports to support the claim. In fact, the opposite is true. January 9th, lead story debunked the video and reported that both the audio and Starmer's face were manipulated by AI. (Related: No, Keir Starmer won't call off May 2025 county council elections)
Savile was a British television personality and a sex offender who abused children, men and women from the mid-1940s to 2009, according to the publication. BBC News. The report into Savile's alleged crimes was published in 2013, two years after his death, the newspaper also reported.
Additionally, Dr. Walter Shirer, an AI expert at the University of Notre Dame, labeled the video a “deepfake” in an email to Check Your Fact.
“This video appears to be a deepfake of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose lips have been reanimated to match a synthetic audio track. This reanimation is not perfect and in places the audio is out of sync with the video. Additionally, there are noticeable artifacts in the mouth area where large pixel areas suddenly look different, for example at 0:21 in the video,'' Shirer said.
Check Your Fact has also contacted Mr Starmer's office for comment.
