Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows A Wedding Party Fall To The Street When A Balcony Collapses -- It Is AI-Generated

Lead Stories says: Made With AI Key takeaways Powered by Yahoo Scout. Yahoo is using AI to generate key points from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. A video circulating online showing a balcony collapse during a wedding party was actually created with AI technology and not a real incident. The video, posted on Instagram in January 2026, had a watermark linking it to a creator from Turkey with the handle @merakmerkezi_2024. An AI-generated content detection tool determined that the video was 99.9% likely to contain AI-generated content, and most videos from the creator's account have a "Made with AI" disclaimer. See more Does a real video show an incident where a wedding party dancing on a balcony fell to the street when the balcony suddenly collapsed? No, that's not true: The video posted on Instagram as early as January 28, 2026, has a disclaimer added by the creator that the video was made with AI. The AI-generated content detection tool from Hive Moderation also determined that the video was 99.9% likely to contain AI-generated content.