Fact Check: ABC's 'The View' Set Did NOT Burn Down In January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires

Lead Stories utilized UB’s DeepFake-o-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in the Media Forensic Lab, to disprove an AI-generated image that showed the burnt down set of ABC’s “The View,” and in another story about AI-generated videos of the Los Angeles fires.