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Whack-a-mole: US academic fights to purge his AI deepfakes

Society, Technology

February 4, 2026 As deepfake videos of John Mearsheimer multiplied across YouTube, the American academic rushed to have them taken down, embarking on a grueling fight that laid bare the challenges of combating AI-driven impersonation. The international relations scholar spent months pressing the Google-owned platform to remove hundreds of deepfakes, an uphill battle that stands […]

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‘AI president’: Trump deepfakes glorify himself, trash rivals

Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

November 12, 2025 In a parallel reality, Donald Trump reigns as king, fighter pilot, and Superman, and his political opponents are cast as criminals and laughingstocks — an unprecedented weaponization of AI imagery by a sitting American president. Trump has ramped up his use of artificial intelligence-generated content on his Truth Social channel since starting

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YouTube users trip over fake AI tributes to Charlie Kirk

Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

October 21, 2025 “Thank you, Adele, it’s such a beautiful song,” reads a glowing comment beneath an emotional YouTube tribute to slain US activist Charlie Kirk. But the music is AI-generated — and bears little resemblance to the British icon’s voice. Rapidly evolving artificial intelligence tools can now create songs from simple text prompts, mimicking

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What do some researchers call disinformation? Anything but disinformation

Politics, Society

September 26, 2025 “Disinformation” is fast becoming a dirty word in the United States — a label so contentious in a hyperpolarized political climate that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether. In an era of online deception and information manipulation, the study of disinformation seems more critical than

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‘Fueling sexism’: AI ‘bikini interview’ videos flood internet

Society, Technology, Uncategorized

September 12, 2025 The videos are strikingly lifelike, featuring bikini-clad women conducting street interviews and eliciting lewd comments — but they are entirely fake, generated by AI tools increasingly used to flood social media with sexist content. Such AI slop — mass-produced content created by cheap artificial intelligence tools that turn simple text prompts into

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US anti-disinformation guardrails fall in Trump’s first 100 days

Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

May 5, 2025 From slashed federal funding for disinformation research to the closure of a key agency combating foreign influence operations, the United States has dismantled vital guardrails against falsehoods within President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. The moves could have national security implications, experts warn, granting US adversaries such as Russia and

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Hijacking news: Fake media sites sow Ukraine disinformation

Politics, Technology, Ukraine, Uncategorized

April 23, 2025 A fake news website falsely claimed that Ukraine’s president is paying Western reporters to tarnish US President Donald Trump — part of a series of deceptive reports spread by Russian-linked portals mimicking media outlets. The disinformation tactic, amid heightened international efforts to halt the three-year war with Russia, seeks to undermine both

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Russian disinformation ‘infects’ AI chatbots, researchers warn

Politics, Technology, Ukraine

March 13, 2025 A sprawling Russian disinformation network is manipulating Western AI chatbots to spew pro-Kremlin propaganda, researchers say, at a time when the United States is reported to have paused its cyber operations against Moscow. The Pravda network, a well-resourced Moscow-based operation to spread pro-Russian narratives globally, is said to be distorting the output

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Meta profits from known pro-Russian disinfo network: researchers

Politics, Society, Technology

January 28, 2025 Social media giant Meta made hundreds of thousands of dollars last year from content posted by a well-known pro-Russian disinformation network, researchers have claimed. Tens of thousands of Facebook users in France, Germany, Poland and Italy were targeted with cartoons mocking French politicians, messages hostile to European aid to Ukraine and other

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‘Form of violence’: Across globe, deepfake porn targets women politicians

Editors Pick, Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

January 15, 2025 From the United States to Italy, Britain, and Pakistan, female politicians are increasingly becoming victims of AI-generated deepfake pornography or sexualized images, in a troubling trend that researchers say threatens women’s participation in public life. An online boom in non-consensual deepfakes is outpacing efforts to regulate the technology globally, experts say, with

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This image of Atletico Madrid fans holding a giant Palestinian flag is not real

Middle East, Politics, Technology

October 30, 2023 Since the start of an intense bombing campaign by Israel on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on October 7, there have been numerous demonstrations in various countries related to the conflict. In this context, an image has spread on social media claiming

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This image of queues in Greece was created using artificial intelligence

Society, Technology, Uncategorized

September 21, 2023 Heavy rains in early September 2023 caused deadly flooding in Thessaly in central Greece, leaving residents in some towns without drinking water and triggering queues for bottled water. In the wake of this natural disaster, posts on social networks shared an image generated by artificial intelligence (AI) claiming or implying that it

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ERT did not cut funding for a Yorgos Avgeropoulos documentary in 2023; the claim is from 2019

Politics

July 31, 2023 Posts on social media in July 2023 falsely claimed that Greek public broadcaster ERT had pulled funding for a hard-hitting political and social documentary following the re-election of the centre-right New Democracy in June 2023. Replicating verbatim text that circulated in 2019 about the film “AGORA II: Chained”, the posts presented this

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Video of a chanting crowd is from a Mexico music concert, not a protest in France

Fact Check, Society, Technology

The June 2023 killing in France of a teenager of Algerian descent by a policeman sparked days of protests and riots in several French cities. In this context, Greek social network users shared a video of thousands of people packed into a city area with audio of loud chants in Arabic. The video is presented as a gathering in response to the shooting. However, this is false. The video shows a free concert by a popular band in central Mexico City. A soundtrack of Islamic chants was added over the images.

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Javied Aslam, leading figure in the Pakistani community in Greece did not run in national elections

Politics

May 22, 2023 Javied Aslam Arain, a leading figure in the Pakistani community in Greece, did not run in the general election, contrary to false claims circulating on social media. Aslam and the centre-left party PASOK-KINAL told AFP that he was not standing for election for the party in Athens, as claimed in some online

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Article misconstrues archaeological discovery in Spain as remnants of ‘Atlantis’

Society

May 12, 2023 The recent discovery of 5th-century BC reliefs depicting human faces at an archaeological site in southwest Spain marked a breakthrough in historians’ understanding of the ancient Iberian civilization of Tartessos. But a Greek article shared hundreds of times online has warped the discovery into myth, claiming that these sculptures are “the first

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Bill Gates did not say in this interview that Covid vaccines were ‘dangerous’

COVID-19, Health, Science, Society, Technology

April 27, 2023 In a 2022 video interview, Bill Gates praised Covid-19 vaccines while admitting they were not perfect in entirely blocking the transmission of the virus and in the limited duration of their effect. A Greek website shared a clip from this video in April 2023 with the false claim that it showed him

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Magnetic African dust is not proof of chemtrails

Environment, Science, Society

April 17, 2023 Contrary to unfounded claims circulating on social media, the magnetic qualities of African dust are not proof of the existence of chemtrails. Dust from the Sahara desert, which is often detected in Greece and elsewhere in southern European, naturally contains minerals with magnetic qualities. But these magnetic properties are not proof that

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