Tag: Disinformation
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🇮🇱 Viral Video Falsely Claims Benjamin Netanyahu Was Shot at Press Conference
A viral video circulating on social media falsely claims to show Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being targeted in a shooting during a press conference. Fact-checking investigations found that the footage is actually from a 2013 attempted attack on Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan in Sofia. The video is authentic, but its connection to Netanyahu is…
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🇲🇱 Mali’s information war is increasingly being shaped by AI
A 2026 study by the Timbuktu Institute identifies Mali as an “open-air laboratory” for information warfare driven by generative AI, with various conflict actors utilizing the technology to differing extents to amplify existing societal faultlines. While the Al-Qaeda-affiliated JNIM has shown limited usage, the Tuareg separatist FLA actively employs AI-generated characters on social media to…