This roundup of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information.
The AI overviews of searches with Google Lens have been giving users false and misleading information about certain images being shared widely on social media, a Full Fact investigation has revealed.
This has happened for videos supposedly relating to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the India-Pakistan conflict, the June 2025 Air India plane crash and small boat arrivals in the UK.
Full Fact ran a number of searches for screenshots of key moments of misleading videos which we’ve fact checked in recent months using Google Lens, and found the AI overviews for at least 10 of these clips failed to recognise inauthentic content or otherwise shared false claims about what the images showed.
In four examples, the AI overviews repeated the false claims we saw shared with these clips on social media – claims which Full Fact has debunked. We also found AI overviews changed with each search, even when searching the same thing, so we often weren’t able to generate identical or consistent responses.
Google Lens is a visual search tool that analyses images – including stills from videos – and can surface similar pictures found online, as well as text or objects that relate to the image. According to Google, the AI overviews which sometimes appear at the top of Google Lens search results bring together “the most relevant information...
This roundup of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. The AI overviews of searches with Go...