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People seeking information about the war in Iran

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 14063 Report
Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

2026-02-28

Reports said that, in the early days of the war in Iran, purported AI-generated fakes showing nonexistent wartime scenes reached millions of viewers online. Their spread across social media and messaging apps allegedly distorted public perception of the conflict and contributed to information disorder.

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Incident 14142 Report
Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

2026-03-05

Images purportedly generated by Gemini were reportedly circulated on X and Facebook in multiple languages claiming U.S. soldiers had been captured by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps during the war in Iran. AFP said the images contained Gemini markers and other visual inconsistencies. Their circulation allegedly contributed to wartime misinformation and risked distorting public understanding of the conflict, including reported amplification by Jill Stein.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Unknown social media accounts

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

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Unknown disinformation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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Unknown image generator developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

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Unknown generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

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Entity

Unknown deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

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social media users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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Entity

National security and intelligence stakeholders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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X (Twitter)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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Entity

Unknown image generator technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

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Entity

Unknown generative AI technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

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Entity

Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

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TikTok

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

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Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

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Facebook

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1406
    3 Reports

    Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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Unknown pro-Iranian disinformation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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Entity

Tayyaba Usmani

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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Google

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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Gemini

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1414
    2 Reports

    Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

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