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He said, she said, AI said: Wall Street sex scandal rivets and confounds

May 21, 2026 A Wall Street banker’s explosive sexual harassment lawsuit against a female executive has triggered a torrent of salacious falsehoods muddying the waters — with AI-created deepfakes and memes fueling the frenzy. The social media storm erupted soon after the suit — packed with allegations of sexual abuse, coercion, and racial harassment — […]

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Fact-check Malta: The troll accounts using AI to influence Malta’s election race

AI, Fact Check, Politics, Technology

Political troll pages have turned to AI-generated images and videos as the election campaign moves online

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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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‘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

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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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Fact-check Malta: Fake social media post warns of flight cancellations caused by Storm Harry

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Fake image claims airport will be shut as old video from 2010 resurfaces on Facebook

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Fact-check Malta: How AI-generated fox videos sowed confusion over genuine sighting

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An activist posted a photo of a lost fox. Soon, Maltese social media was flooded with AI videos of foxes

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He said, she said, AI said: Wall Street sex scandal rivets and confounds

Fact-check Malta: The troll accounts using AI to influence Malta’s election race

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fact-check Malta: Fake social media post warns of flight cancellations caused by Storm Harry

Fact-check Malta: How AI-generated fox videos sowed confusion over genuine sighting

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