James Waterhouse, the BBC's Ukraine correspondent, was falsely reported to have a hot mic moment during coverage of the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting. Social media users claimed his comments were unfiltered and controversial. However, subsequent investigations indicated that these claims arose from a misleading AI-generated clip. Waterhouse himself denied the authenticity of the statements attributed to him, urging people to view the original unedited BBC footage from the meeting. Fact-checkers also corroborated that the viral audio was fabricated, leading to a firm dismissal of the claim as completely false.
"The BBC forgets to cut the live feed of their reporter in Kyiv, and his comment on the Trump - Zelensky meeting is just absolutely priceless," a March 6 Threads post read.
Waterhouse also addressed this claim on X and Threads, saying, "There's an AI-generated clip of me doing the rounds." He linked to the original, blunder-free clip.
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