{"id":208892,"date":"2026-05-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/fact-check-dont-fall-for-alleged-audio-of-bill-clinton-criticizing-hegseths-testimony\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:10:11","slug":"fact-check-dont-fall-for-alleged-audio-of-bill-clinton-criticizing-hegseths-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/fact-check-dont-fall-for-alleged-audio-of-bill-clinton-criticizing-hegseths-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Don&#8217;t fall for alleged audio of Bill Clinton criticizing Hegseth&#8217;s testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/fact-check-dont-fall-alleged-110000931.html\">Fact Check: Don&#8217;t fall for alleged audio of Bill Clinton criticizing Hegseth&#8217;s testimony<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/fact-check-dont-fall-alleged-110000931.html\">https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/fact-check-dont-fall-alleged-110000931.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"uk.news.yahoo.com\">uk.news.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is an unordered list summarizing the article with 6 key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In early May 2026, social media platforms circulated videos featuring inauthentic audio allegedly of former U.S. President Bill Clinton criticizing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8217;s congressional testimony in late April 2026.<br \/>\n&#8211; The videos claimed that Clinton&#8217;s comments included statements like Hegseth&#8217;s &#8220;testimony blew up in his face&#8221; and that Hegseth&#8217;s efforts led to &#8220;military collapse.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; The audio used in the videos was determined to be doctored, utilizing AI tools to create both the voice imitation and accompanying images of Clinton.<br \/>\n&#8211; No reputable or prominent news outlets had reported any genuine statements made by Clinton addressing Hegseth\u2019s testimony.<br \/>\n&#8211; Google\u2019s SynthID Detector confirmed that the images in the videos were created using AI, further indicating inauthenticity.<br \/>\n&#8211; Snopes reached out to both the Facebook pages sharing the videos and a Clinton representative for comments, but no verified statements have been provided to confirm the videos&#8217; authenticity. <\/p>\n<p>This summary encapsulates the primary focus of the article, emphasizing the inauthentic nature of the shared clips and the absence of verified corroboration from credible sources.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact Check: Don&#8217;t fall for alleged audio of Bill Clinton criticizing Hegseth&#8217;s testimony https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/fact-check-dont-fall-alleged-110000931.html Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/snopes_632\/8794326c653ffda3a4607bb550c31d4c","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208896,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208892\/revisions\/208896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}