Within minutes of Donald Trump announcing in the early hours of Saturday morning that US troops had captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, disinformation about the operation flooded social media.
Some people data-offer-url=”https://x.com/Shayan86/status/2007368249583739033″ class=”external-link” data-event-click=”{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"https://x.com/Shayan86/status/2007368249583739033"}” href=”https://x.com/Shayan86/status/2007368249583739033″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>shared old videos across social platforms, falsely claiming that they showed the attacks on the Venezuelan capital Caracas. On TikTok, Instagram, and X, people shared AI-generated images and videos that claimed to show US Drug Enforcement Administration agents and…
