Fact Check: Viral 'Daily Telegraph' Front Page on Pakistan Air Force Is AI-Generated

Indian Armed force has conducted a special briefing on Operation Sindoor. India struck Pakistan’s airbases, command centers, military infrastructure, and air defense systems across the western front, says Air Marshal Bharti. The Pakistan Army is reported to have lost approximately 35 to 40 personnel in artillery and small arms firing on the Line of Control between May 7 to 10 said Lt. Gen. Rajiv Ghai. The DGMO stated that five personnel of the Indian armed forces were killed during Operation Sindoor.

Meanwhile a newspaper front page titled "Pakistan Air force: The undisputed king of the skies" with an image of J-10C fighter jet is going viral on social media. The UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph is claimed to have referred to the Pakistan Air Force as the “King of the Skies,” according to the viral post.

Here is the screenshot and link of the viral claim:

Fact Check:

The claim that the UK-based The Daily Telegraph calls the Pakistan Air Force the “King of the Skies” is false. The image in circulation is AI-generated. 

We found several errors in the viral image on close verification. The dateline in the masthead did not include the year of issue, while the URL should read “.co.uk” and not “,cuk,” indicating that it was fabricated. Going through the body of the news, we found that the entire copy contains multiple spelling errors. Terms like "cilet," "fquave," "conflicfts," "Thf thelegrapn," "praized," "Aur force," and "advancemand" can be seen in the body.

The garbled and nonsensical text, jumbled sentences and incorrect spellings, suggest that the front page of the newspaper is AI-generated.  We ran the image through the Decopy AI detection tool which said the image was 94% likely to be AI-generated, further confirming that the viral “news report” was fake

For confirmation we ran a keyword search for the same content , and found no such report by the British daily newspaper. We searched for an e copy of May 10, 2025 issue of the Daily Telegraph and found the cover page of the newspaper on the official website of the newspaper. The newspaper contained no such reports.

The claim that the cover page of the UK-based daily newspaper The Daily Telegraph calls the Pakistan Air Force the “King of the Skies” is false. The image in circulation is AI-generated.