{"id":997009,"date":"2026-03-09T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997009"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:36:15","slug":"fake-ai-satellite-imagery-spurs-us-iran-war-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/09\/fake-ai-satellite-imagery-spurs-us-iran-war-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake AI satellite imagery spurs US-Iran war disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The satellite image posted by an Iranian news outlet looked real: a devastated US base in Qatar. But it was an AI-generated fake, underscoring the accelerating threat of tech-enabled disinformation during wartime. <\/p>\n<p>The rise of generative AI has turbocharged the ability of state actors and propagandists to fabricate convincing satellite imagery during major conflicts, a trend that researchers warn carries real-world security implications. <\/p>\n<p>As the US-Israeli war against Iran rages, Tehran Times, a state-aligned English daily, posted on X a &#8220;before vs. after&#8221; image it claimed showed &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221; US radar equipment at a base in Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The satellite image posted by an Iranian news outlet looked real: a devastated US base in Qatar. But it was an AI-generated fake, underscoring the accelerating threat of tech-enabled disinformation during wartime. The rise of generative AI has turbocharged the ability of state actors and propagandists to fabricate convincing satellite imagery during major conflicts, a trend that researchers warn carries real-world security implications. As the US-Israeli war against Iran rages, Tehran Times, a state-aligned English daily, posted on X a &#8220;before vs. after&#8221; image it claimed showed &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221; US radar equipment at a base in Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}