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.
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The fabricated Time magazine cover was shared on X on February 10, 2025.
“According to Al-Jazeera, this house belongs to a Muslim and this is the only house that survived the fire in Los Angeles,” read part of the caption to an Instagram post that shared the picture on January 13, 2025.
“MAJOR ALERT: THE JAIL OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE IS ALMOST COMPLETE !!! ARE YOU READY TO SEE ARRESTS ???” says a November 30, 2024 X post.
“President Biden appeared to wander off at the G7 summit in Italy, with officials needing to pull him back to focus,” the New York Post said in a June 13, 2024 post on X.
“It is still a wonder what really happened to Facebook, Instagram and the entire Meta company. But based on my analysis, this is an effect of a solar flare,” says a March 7 YouTube video with more than 11,000 views.
Since Elon Musk’s turbulent 2022 acquisition of X, formerly Twitter, the site has restored thousands of once-banned accounts and introduced a paid verification system that critics say has boosted conspiracy theorists.
“AWWW… THANK YOU!!!” says a February 4, 2024 post on X, formerly Twitter, from an account called “il Donaldo Trumpo.”
“Nephilim giant tribe discovered in Romania,” reads the Korean-language caption to the image posted here on Naver Band, a South Korean forum, on December 12, 2023.
“An American doctor said he would pay a million dollars to anyone who would not cure diabetes with his new drug,” CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer appears to say in a November 6, 2023 Facebook reel. The video then cuts to a purported endorsement from Mehmet Oz, a physician and former TV host who ran an unsuccessful Senate campaign in 2022.