"Within minutes of Donald Trump announcing in the early hours of Saturday morning that US troops had captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, disinformation about the operation flooded social media. Some people shared old videos across social platforms, falsely claiming that they showed the attacks on the Venezuelan capital Caracas. On TikTok, Instagram, and X, people shared AI-generated images and videos that claimed to show US Drug Enforcement Administration agents and various law enforcement personnel arresting Maduro."
"Hours later, US attorney general Pam Bondi announced that Maduro and his wife had been indicted in the Southern District of New York and charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices. "They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts," Bondi wrote on X."
"Within minutes of the news of Maduro's arrest breaking, an image claiming to show two DEA agents flanking the Venezuelan president spread widely on multiple platforms. However, using SynthID, a technology developed by Google DeepMind that claims to identify AI-generated images, WIRED was able to confirm it was likely fake. "Based on my analysis, most or all of this image was generated or edited using"
Within minutes of a Truth Social post claiming US troops captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, widespread disinformation spread across social platforms. Users circulated old videos falsely presented as footage of attacks on Caracas and posted AI-generated images and videos purporting to show US Drug Enforcement Administration agents arresting Maduro. Tech companies have scaled back moderation in recent years, enabling many accounts to exploit lax rules to boost engagement and followers. US authorities announced indictments charging narco-terrorism, drug importation, and weapons offenses. Verification tools such as SynthID indicated some circulated images were likely fake.
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