Some images of Pope Francis are going viral on social media platforms showing him partying on New Year’s Eve. Users on social media platforms are sharing these images and claiming that Pope Francis is partying on New Year’s Eve.

A user named Lisa Magadonian shared a collage on X(Twitter). The text on the collage read: “Jorge Bergoglio aka Papa Francisc at a party with women organized by Jeffrey Epstein and company”.

The archive version can be seen here.

Another user named Qmum posted some images on X(Twitter) and wrote: “Party loving pedo pope”

Furthermore, we found that other users also shared these images and made similar claims.

Fact-Check

A reverse-image search of the viral images led us to an Instagram account named ‘hard ai pics’ where we found these images with the title: “𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬 on News Year ‘s eve”

Here’s collage given below will show the minute differences.

In addition to that, several AI-generated images can be seen on this account.

Conclusion

It is evident from DFRAC ‘s fact-check that the viral images showing Pope Francis partying on New Year’s Eve are AI-generated.

Hence, the claim of social media users is false.

Analysis: Fake