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stated on April 4, 2026 in social media posts:

Video shows a US soldier crying and saying she misses home and her family.

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Loreben Tuquero

By Loreben Tuquero April 7, 2026

Does this video show a US soldier crying and saying she misses home? No, it’s AI

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The video was generated with artificial intelligence.

See the sources for this fact-check

On X, accounts focused on the Iran war shared a video of a supposed U.S. service member crying, with smoke rising and a vehicle stalled in the background.

"An American soldier cries intensely and says: We are tired... we didn't want this and we didn't choose it. I just want to go home," an April 4 X post read. " I don't want this war... I want peace."

"I really, I really miss home. I miss my family every single day," the woman in the video appeared to say. "But I’m still here, serving my country."

Other X accounts also shared the video, as did accounts on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. One X post gained 4.4 million views.

But it’s a fake clip made with artificial intelligence.

Looking closely, some details in the video appear to morph from one moment to the next. Inconsistencies like these are markers of AI generation.

The stars on her uniform’s flag patches appear to change in shape, number and orientation. What look like moles on her neck disappear and reappear throughout the video.

(Screenshots from X video; top panels show stars changing in shape, number and orientation; bottom panel shows moles appearing and disappearing on her neck)

AI-generated videos of supposed service members crying and expressing distress have previously circulated on social media, with some related to the war in Ukraine.

We rate claims that this video shows a U.S. soldier crying and saying she misses home and her family False.

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X post by The Iran Observer, April 4, 2026

X post by Iranian Force, April 5, 2026

Deutsche Welle, Fact check: Videos of crying Ukrainian soldiers are fake, Nov. 10, 2025

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