{"id":70980,"date":"2026-04-06T10:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/republicans-fooled-by-ai-generated-image-of-us-crew-member-rescued-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:55:32","slug":"republicans-fooled-by-ai-generated-image-of-us-crew-member-rescued-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/republicans-fooled-by-ai-generated-image-of-us-crew-member-rescued-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans fooled by AI-generated image of US crew member rescued in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fake image of airman surrounded by smiling military members has been reshared more than 21,000 times on the X platform<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> politicians were hoaxed over the weekend by an image purporting to be a downed US warplane crew member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/04\/iran-search-missing-us-crew-member-downed-fighter-jet-second-day\">rescued<\/a> by military special forces in Iran on Saturday, igniting a call for a national \u201ccrash course in media literacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/greg-abbott\">Greg Abbott<\/a>, the Texas governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ken-paxton\">Ken Paxton<\/a>, the state\u2019s attorney general and a US senate candidate and Mike Lawler, a New York representative, were all caught out for \u201cliking\u201d a fake picture of the airman, who has not been publicly identified.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/06\/republicans-ai-image-us-plane-member-rescue-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake image of airman surrounded by smiling military members has been reshared more than 21,000 times on the X platform Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Republican politicians were hoaxed over the weekend by an image purporting to be a downed US warplane crew member rescued &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans fooled by AI-generated image of US crew member rescued in Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/republicans-fooled-by-ai-generated-image-of-us-crew-member-rescued-in-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republicans fooled by AI-generated image of US crew member rescued in Iran\">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-70980","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\/70980","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=70980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}