{"id":8692,"date":"2026-03-30T21:41:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8692"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:41:52","slug":"state-actors-are-behind-much-of-the-visual-misinformation-about-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/30\/state-actors-are-behind-much-of-the-visual-misinformation-about-the-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"State actors are behind much of the visual misinformation about the Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the initial days of the Iran war, AI-generated videos and state-linked propaganda have flooded social media to create false narratives of military success and high casualty rates. Fact-checkers identified several fabricated clips, such as a faked skyscraper explosion in Bahrain, by spotting AI glitches like merged vehicles and distorted human limbs. In response, platforms like X have introduced strict penalties, including 90-day or permanent revenue-sharing suspensions, for accounts that post undisclosed AI-generated war footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 7, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-war-images-misinformation-russia-israel-9e495017dc5c4bf24a0b6152863dbfb1\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the initial days of the Iran war, AI-generated videos and state-linked propaganda have flooded social media to create false narratives of military success and high casualty rates. Fact-checkers identified several fabricated clips, such as a faked skyscraper explosion in Bahrain, by spotting AI glitches like merged vehicles and distorted human limbs. In response, platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8855,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions\/8855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}