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Tehran Times

Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 14941 Report
Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

2026-02-28

A purportedly AI-manipulated satellite-style image reportedly circulated online claiming to show U.S. radar equipment in Qatar destroyed by an Iranian strike. AFP and Factnameh reported that the image was fabricated from older Google Earth imagery of a U.S. site in Bahrain, not Qatar or Al-Udeid Air Base. The image, amplified by Tehran Times and other social media posts, reportedly gained millions of views and fueled wartime disinformation.

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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 disinformation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Social media users spreading AI-generated wartime disinformation

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Unknown generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Unknown image generator developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Open-source intelligence researchers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Fact-checkers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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United States military

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Wartime information ecosystem

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Al-Udeid Air Base

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Radar installations

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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United States Navy Fifth Fleet

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Unknown image generator technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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Unknown generative AI technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1494
    1 Report

    Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar

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