“BREAKING: ANOTHER EXPLOSION AT AN OIL REFINERY IN IRAN,” says a June 13, 2025 post sharing the visual on X.
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An AFP investigation identified dozens of YouTube and TikTok pages that have been churning out AI-generated messages delivered in the pope’s voice or otherwise attributed to him since he took charge of the Catholic Church last month.
“Vance, you say you hope Biden recovers soon, yet you attack him with such cold, calculated words. It’s hard to believe someone like you is part of the US government,” Pope Leo XIV appears to say in the clip, which was shared in a May 23, 2025 post on Instagram.
US President Donald Trump ambushed his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa at talks Wednesday with a video meant to support unfounded claims of the “persecution” of white farmers.
“The Media laughed and said Ivermectin was ONLY for horses and cows? THEY KNEW it was made for people since 1987,” begins a May 7, 2025 Facebook post.
“In memory of Pope Francis, this will forever be my favorite video of him,” says an April 21, 2025 post on X, shared shortly after the Vatican announced Pope Francis, 88, had died.
“Tariff problems, a sudden attack,” reads simplified Chinese sticker text on an April 11 Douyin video of a man appearing to walk on stage behind Trump, hit him, and walk away as Trump ducks and Secret Service agents rush up to protect him.
Climate change deniers are pushing an AI-generated paper questioning human-induced warming, leading experts to warn against the rise of research that is inherently flawed but marketed as neutral and scrupulously logical.
“BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP STRIKES BACK — DEATH PENALTY FOR mRNA CRIMES NOW ON THE TABLE”, reads the headline of a lengthy Facebook post published on February 26, 2025.
New scientific research claims ocean currents are “stable,” states Anthony Watts in a February 28, 2025 article on his website.