Description: During the Iran war, anonymous pro-Iran accounts on X including HDX News and GPX News reportedly circulated a purportedly AI-generated Jeffrey Epstein-themed video while claiming it was real and that U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran were launched to distract from Epstein-related material. The Washington Post reported the HDX News post received more than 6.8 million views and GPX News's version received more than 4.7 million before both accounts were suspended by X.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Unknown pro-Iranian disinformation actors , Unknown disinformation actors , HDX News and GPX News, which harmed Jewish people , General public , Epistemic integrity and Donald Trump.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown deepfake technology and Social media platforms
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1496
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-03-03
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
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A grainy video appears to show a line of blindfolded young girls parading past an underwear-clad Donald Trump. A girl's anguished voice cries out in German. The video cuts to scenes of Trump and other famous figures talking with the late ch…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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