After part of a multi-storey Islamic boarding school in Indonesia collapsed while students gathered for afternoon prayers, an AI-generated video was shared in social media posts falsely claiming it showed the cave-in. The circulating clip was cropped to remove the watermark of the AI platform used to create it and differs from photos showing the aftermath of the deadly disaster.
The video, depicting a building collapsing over another structure, has been viewed more than 740,000 times since it was posted on TikTok on September 30, 2025.
Indonesian-language text on the video reads: "The moment a four-storey building at Al-Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in Sidoarjo collapses while students were performing the Asr prayer in congregation."
It circulated a day after the school on Indonesia's Java island partially collapsed as more than 170 students gathered for prayers (archived link).
Authorities said 67 people were killed in the disaster, the country's deadliest of the year. The cause of the cave-in is still under investigation, but experts believe substandard construction may have contributed.
The same video was also shared elsewhere in similar TikTok and Facebook posts but it is in fact AI-generated.
A reverse image search on Google using keyframes from the falsely shared clip led to similar footage posted on TikTok on the day of the collapse, where it was presented as if it were part of a genuine news report by Liputan6 (archived link).
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