{"id":68871,"date":"2026-03-13T07:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/ai-generated-iran-images-are-widespread-how-do-we-know-what-to-believe-margaret-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:54:50","slug":"ai-generated-iran-images-are-widespread-how-do-we-know-what-to-believe-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/ai-generated-iran-images-are-widespread-how-do-we-know-what-to-believe-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-generated Iran images are widespread. How do we know what to believe? | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fake pictures look authentic \u2013 and authentic ones get mistaken for fake. Here are three rules for navigating the war coverage<\/p>\n<p>The videos look authentic \u2013 and they are spreading like wildfire on social media. One, for example, shows Iranian missiles exploding upon the airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. Another shows US soldiers being held at gunpoint by Iranian military.<\/p>\n<p>They aren\u2019t real but \u2013 often made with the help of cutting-edge AI \u2013 they are wildly misleading. They may get debunked, but somehow that doesn\u2019t make a dent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/13\/ai-generated-fake-iran-images\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake pictures look authentic \u2013 and authentic ones get mistaken for fake. Here are three rules for navigating the war coverage The videos look authentic \u2013 and they are spreading like wildfire on social media. One, for example, shows Iranian missiles exploding upon the airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. Another shows US soldiers being held &#8230; <a title=\"AI-generated Iran images are widespread. How do we know what to believe? | Margaret Sullivan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/ai-generated-iran-images-are-widespread-how-do-we-know-what-to-believe-margaret-sullivan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AI-generated Iran images are widespread. How do we know what to believe? | Margaret Sullivan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}