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Claims of ‘staged’ US press gala shooting misrepresent Fox News coverage

Social media users are misrepresenting Fox News coverage to support baseless allegations that US President Donald Trump staged the assassination attempt that disrupted a press gala in Washington on April 25, 2026. A purported Fox Business Network graphic saying 70 percent of Americans believe the gunfire was orchestrated is an altered fake, and online claims that Fox News cut off a correspondent on air because she was revealing a pre-planned plot have been refuted by both the network and the journalist.

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What’s real anymore? AI warps truth of Middle East war

AI, Middle East, Politics, Society, Technology

April 21, 2026 “Is Netanyahu real or AI?” an internet headline blared, pointing to a video that supposedly showed the Israeli prime minister with six fingers. But the clip was real. Speculation spiraled online that Netanyahu might be dead or wounded in an Iranian strike and that Israel was covering it up with a double

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Fact-check Malta: Is pensioners’ income now completely tax-free?

Fact Check, Politics, Society

A new measure promised to exempt pensioners earning up to €37,000 from income tax

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‘Narrative war’: disinformation surges as conflict roils Middle East

AI, Middle East, Politics, Society, Technology

March 6, 2026 Recycled images, video game footage passed off as missile strikes, and AI-generated combat visuals: the US-Israeli assault on Iran has unleashed a torrent of online disinformation that analysts are calling a war of narratives. Since US and Israeli strikes over the weekend ignited a regional conflict, a parallel information war has erupted,

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Fact-check Malta: Fake video shows newscaster promoting sham lottery app

AI, Fact Check, Society, Technology

February 20, 2026 A new video showing a Television Malta (TVM) news feature about a lottery is manipulated by AI to promote what appears to be a sham lottery. The minute-long video shows Angelica Farrugia, a newscaster at the state broadcaster’s TV station TVM, presenting the evening news, as she would do on a typical

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Fact-check Malta: Behind Infinite Facts, Malta’s AI feel-good fake story generator

AI, Fact Check, Society, Technology

A Facebook page has racked up 23,000 followers on the back of fake feel-good stories

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AI tools fabricate Epstein images ‘in seconds,’ study says

AI, Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

February 10, 2026 AI tools can easily fabricate convincing images of Jeffrey Epstein with world leaders, a study has shown, following a surge of manipulated photos falsely linking prominent politicians to the convicted sex offender. Social media users have amplified AI-generated images purporting to show the convicted sex offender socializing with politicians such as New

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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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