AI-generated videos purportedly depicting protests in Iran have flooded the web, researchers said Wednesday, as social media users push hyper-realistic deepfakes to fill an information void amid the country’s internet restrictions.

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    1 day ago

    You can tell this is imperial propaganda by how china/russia is not blamed, how the perpetrators are described as “social media users”, and how the blame is put on iran for restricting the internet.

    But it’s still news.