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Adam Zivo: The deepfake war on Tel Aviv

Iran's Islamic regime and its supporters are flooding social media with AI-videos showing the Israeli city's destruction

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TEL AVIV — Having failed to achieve substantial wartime victories, Iran’s Islamic regime and its supporters are now flooding social media with AI-generated videos falsely claiming that Tel Aviv has been destroyed. This descent into self-delusion may be pathetic, but it epitomizes an evolution in information warfare that the world is ill-equipped to handle.

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These AI videos predominantly claim to show the city being struck by large barrages of ballistic missiles, and are often deployed in tandem with more traditional forms of disinformation, such as footage of old strikes — or other conflict zones — that is misrepresented as contemporary Israeli suffering.

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