AI firm in Israel uses deepfake rape survivor videos

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In a world with this kind of content where can we go to find real news stories? How can we trust what we are being told?

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/israeli-linked-project-reportedly-using-ai-to-generate-fake-iranian-victims-manufacture-support-for-regime-change/ar-AA21sW7a?ocid=EMMX

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04/22/generative-ai-for-good/

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/4/24/how-fake-ai-victims-are-being-used-to-provide-rationale-for-attacking-iran

I don't see why AI fakes would be needed in this instance - surely there's enough evidence of the terrible conditions under the regime in Iran? I have Iranian friends who escaped the regime and that's proof enough for me!

I do agree however that AI is making it increasingly difficult to tell what is real and what isn't, and what we should trust or reject. I'm becoming more and more skeptical as time goes on.

Not everyone has access to Iranian personal experience accounts. I have two friends and they differ in how they feel about the US/Israeli attacks. Both agreed that the Regime is bad and needs to change, but one felt that supporting her country against the attackers in this war, overrode that. The other had her doubts.
I think how one feels, especially from the safety of another country, depends on ones own personal/family experience?

Propanda is what it says on the tin. Iranians still living in Iran, feeling anger at the death and destruction around them, might be siding with their country against the attackers, and this AI generated content is aimed at countering that. Not everyone will be able to discern that it's fake. Putting out a false narrative has the additional advantage, that as we realise it is false, we end up not trusting anything, even the truth when we encounter it.