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AI generated Pentagon explosion photograph goes viral on Twitter
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Twitter’s recent changes to checkmark verification continue to cause chaos, this time in the realm of potentially dangerous misinformation. A checkmarked account claimed to show images of explosions close to important landmarks like the Pentagon. These images quickly went viral despite being AI generated and containing multiple overt errors for anyone looking at the supposed photographs.
How did this happen?
Until recently, the social media routine when an important news story breaks would be as follows:
- Something happens, and …
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