Does a real video show Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson publicly declining the invitation to attend the UFC White House event? No, that's not true: An AI-generated cloned voice has been dubbed over pre-existing video clips of Johnson. One clip -- which appears to show his mouth moving in sync with the audio -- is based on footage from an unrelated 2024 interview. Vanity Fair reported that "a source close to The Rock" said he wasn't attending, but this does not equate to Johnson publicly declining the invitation as represented in the video.
The fake AI-generated audio track can be found in a video uploaded to TikTok by stewart.phylicia on June 6, 2026 (archived here). The post was captioned:
Dwayne Johnson publicly declined the invitation to attend the UFC White House event #celebrity #foryou #dwaynejohnson #ufc
This is a screenshot from the video:
Lead Stories uploaded 20 seconds of this video to the detection tool of AI-generated content at Hive Moderation. This determined with 98.6% confidence that the speech was AI-generated (pictured below).