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Crashed stealth bombers and paratroopers: How to spot fake war images fooling millions

Fake photos of the war in Iran are flooding social media, with Elon Musk’s X platform breaking its own rules by allowing users to create AI pictures of real warzones. “Iran is totally winning”, reads ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Fake explosions, fake missiles, fake troops: AI videos and images of Iran War spread widely on social media

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, social media was littered with crude fakes that were presented as fresh images of the war but were either photoshopped phonies or mislabeled clips taken from ...
The New York Times

Surviving a Fake War in Oklahoma

An airsoft event revealed to a reporter a “strange level of dissonance” among participants, some of whom wore the uniforms of Russian soldiers. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff Times Insider explains who we are ...
The Spokesman-Review

How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine transformed a Fake War in Oklahoma

BATTLE SPRINGS RANCH, Okla. — Lightning lined the clouds as a young high school student from northern Oklahoma assembled his gear for a 40-hour pellet-gun battle. Mason Lowery, 17, plans to join the U ...