{"id":998362,"date":"2026-03-16T07:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998362"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:30:12","slug":"ai-fakes-about-iran-us-war-swirl-on-x-despite-policy-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/16\/ai-fakes-about-iran-us-war-swirl-on-x-despite-policy-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"AI fakes about Iran-US war swirl on X despite policy crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI-created videos circulating on Elon Musk&#8217;s X depict American soldiers captured by Iran, an Israeli city in ruins, and US embassies ablaze &#8212; a surge of lifelike deepfakes despite a policy crackdown to curb wartime disinformation. <\/p>\n<p>The Middle East war has unleashed an avalanche of AI-generated visuals, dwarfing anything seen in previous conflicts and often leaving social media users unable to distinguish fabrication from reality, researchers say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI-created videos circulating on Elon Musk&#8217;s X depict American soldiers captured by Iran, an Israeli city in ruins, and US embassies ablaze &#8212; a surge of lifelike deepfakes despite a policy crackdown to curb wartime disinformation. The Middle East war has unleashed an avalanche of AI-generated visuals, dwarfing anything seen in previous conflicts and often leaving social media users unable to distinguish fabrication from reality, researchers say.<\/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-998362","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\/998362","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=998362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}