Video of Norway's Erling Haaland startling himself is digitally altered‎

As Norway's totemic striker Erling Haaland guided his country into the latter stages of the 2026 World Cup, a doctored video appearing to show him being startled by his own reflection was viewed millions of times on Chinese social media. AFP found the clip -- which contains visual inconsistencies typical of synthetic content -- had been altered from a skit posted by a Chinese content creator.