Lake Como in northern Italy has disappeared after a “geological rupture”, a sensational report posted on TikTok claimed. This isn’t true. For one, the footage and photos in this report were all generated by artificial intelligence. Secondly, while the water levels in the lake have dropped, it's because of drought – and satellite images show that Lake Como is far from empty.
Did one of Italy’s most celebrated lakes dry up? That’s the claim made by a report that has garnered more than 600,000 views on X and TikTok: that Lake Como, in northern Italy, is now empty:
