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On 28 February 2026, a joint US-Israeli military campaign struck Iranian nuclear facilities, military infrastructure, and leadership targets in what was officially called Operation Epic Fury.  Social media quickly flooded with false footage of the conflict, including massive explosions in Tel Aviv, successful Iranian missile strikes on US warships, and satellite imagery purporting to show damage to American military bases in the Gulf. 

Some of this footage was recycled from unrelated conflicts,

Since US and Israeli strikes began against Iranian military and nuclear infrastructure in late February, two wars have been running simultaneously. One is kinetic.  The other involves something the world has not fully reckoned with: the systematic use of artificial intelligence to manufacture reality, at scale, in real time, during active armed conflict.[1]

Within days of the opening strikes, AI-generated video of missile impacts on the USS Abraham Lincoln was spreading across TikTok.  Fabricate

It has been a confusing few days in US cyber security. At the end of February of this year, it was reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered US Cyber Command to pause its offensive operations against Russia. The news was swiftly followed by reports that the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) staff had been instructed to turn a blind eye to hacks directed against the United States that might be linked to Russia. The Trump administration had reportedly ordere

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are alerting the public of false claims that the US voter registration data has been compromised in cyber-attacks.  The two agencies note that malicious actors spread disinformation to manipulate public "opinion and undermine confidence in US democratic institutions."

According to public service awareness, the actors present publicly accessible data as evidence of the hacks.  "Malicious acto