A truth ledger for Iran and Ukraine: establishing what is true, then hunting what is false

In one sentence: this page is a working truth ledger for the two defining wars of this decade — the Iran–Israel wars of 2025–2026 and Russia's war on Ukraine — built by ingesting the primary record first, layering every claim by its actual evidentiary status, having a panel of three disagreeing AI models certify each layer against verbatim source text, and then hunting the viral claims that contradict the certified base.

A truth ledger is not a fact-check. A fact-check answers one claim, once, after it has already spread. A ledger is the standing reference the fact-check never builds: what is established, by whom, on what imagery or document; what is merely attributed to a party with an interest; what is genuinely disputed between competent sources; what is contradicted by the record; and what is fabricated outright, with the fabrication itself documented as evidence. Every claim below sits in one of those five layers, is bound to sources you can open, and the contested ones carry a signed verdict from a three-model panel — GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.7, and Grok 4.5 — each shown the same verbatim spans and nothing else.

The scale of the problem, measured

The information environment around both wars is saturated at a scale that did not exist three years ago. The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab analysed roughly 130,000 posts from X's Grok assistant during the twelve-day June 2025 Israel–Iran war and found the assistant itself mislabelling AI-generated videos as real footage [f2]. Hany Farid, the UC Berkeley forensics researcher who has tracked synthetic media for two decades, put the change plainly by March 2026: fakes per conflict went from one or two to hundreds, "and they're really realistic" [f7]. NewsGuard's tracker counted 26 distinct false claims about the June 2025 war spreading across 78 websites, beginning within hours of the first Israeli strikes [w11]. Fabricated war videos identified by verification specialists racked up tens of millions of views [f7].

The corrective infrastructure did not keep pace. A Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas study found over 90 percent of X's Community Notes are never published [w10]. X's March 2026 countermeasure — a 90-day demonetisation for undisclosed AI war content — was met by researchers monitoring the feeds with the observation that they were "still flooded" and that metadata-based disclosure can simply be stripped [w10]. The most dangerous class of claim is unchanged: the trending post with no note, no label, and no durable record of why it is false.

Both governments in the Iran war ran the machine themselves. An Iranian-government-linked publication posted a fabricated satellite image of damage to a US base in Bahrain [f7]. The Citizen Lab documented PRISONBREAK, a network of more than 50 inauthentic X accounts it assesses — with medium confidence — was run by an Israeli government agency or contractor, which posted an AI deepfake of the Evin Prison strike at 12:05 p.m. Tehran time on June 23, 2025, while the real airstrike was still underway, minutes before any organic footage existed [f4]. Official channels contributed unforced errors: the IAEA's Director General had to correct an Israeli military official's false statement to media that the Bushehr nuclear power plant had been attacked [f8]. On the Russian side, Recorded Future documented CopyCop (Storm-1516) building more than 300 fake media websites in 2025 alone, generating content with self-hosted uncensored models and running a fictional fact-checking brand called "Truefact" [w12].

How the five layers work

Every claim on this ledger carries exactly one status, assigned by what the sources actually say — not by who said it loudest.

Established — independently verifiable by imagery, documents, or multiple unaffiliated sources. Certified against verbatim spans.
Attributed — asserted by a named party with an interest (a government, a military, an intelligence service). Recorded as a claim by that party, never laundered into fact.
Disputed — competent sources genuinely conflict, and the evidence available cannot yet resolve them.
Contradicted — the record refutes the claim as circulated. The refutation is bound to its evidence.
Fabricated — the artifact itself is synthetic, recycled, or forged, and the fabrication is documented by named forensic work.

The distinction that does the most work is between established and attributed, and it usually turns on a verb. "41 aircraft struck" and "41 aircraft destroyed" are different claims with different truth values. Most durable war misinformation is not a deepfake; it is a real number from a real source with its qualifier quietly removed.

The Ukraine case: Operation Spiderweb, layer by layer

Ukraine's June 1, 2025 drone attack on Russian strategic bomber bases — Operation Spiderweb — is the cleanest live demonstration of the full ledger, because every layer is populated and the contested number is still circulating.

Established. The attack happened, at extraordinary depth inside Russia: 117 drones launched from trucks with false roofs, against airfields including Belaya (~4,300 km from Ukraine) and Olenya (~1,800 km) [u1] [u2]. BBC Verify reconstructed the mechanics from satellite imagery and drone footage [w4]. Independent damage assessment converged from three imagery pipelines: Planet Labs optical imagery of Belaya showed four Tu-95 bombers and four Tu-22M3s destroyed; SAR imagery of Olenya showed four Tu-95s and one An-12 destroyed — thirteen airframes visible as destroyed across the two bases [u5]. The War Zone's consolidated count from Maxar and Planet imagery ran to "at least six (and more likely seven) Tu-95MS and four Tu-22M3 bombers" destroyed [u10]. Janes, correlating attack video against pre- and post-strike imagery, formally assessed 12 aircraft destroyed, 2 damaged, and 8 possibly damaged [u4]. Imagery of Dyagilevo — one of the claimed target bases — showed no obvious aircraft damage [u10].

Attributed. Ukraine's General Staff, on June 3: "the total losses of the occupiers amounted to 41 military aircraft" — a figure it framed as verified after processing [u1]. President Zelenskyy simultaneously told reporters that half of the 41 struck aircraft were too damaged to repair — which is itself an admission that "41" was never a destroyed-count [u7]. The $7 billion damage figure and the "34% of strategic cruise-missile carriers" figure are SBU claims, relayed by the Institute for the Study of War explicitly as sourced reporting without independent confirmation [u9].

Disputed. The full destroyed-count. US officials told Reuters roughly 10 destroyed and up to 20 hit [u7]; Janes says 12 destroyed [u4]; imagery supports 9 to 13 depending on which bases and which method are counted [u5] [u10]. Russia's Ministry of Defence acknowledged only that "several aircraft" caught fire in two of five attacked regions and claimed the rest of the assaults were repelled [u2]. No competent source outside Ukraine's government supports more than ~13 destroyed; none supports zero.

Contradicted. "41 Russian aircraft destroyed" — the version that actually trended. The panel below denied it 3–0. And "aircraft destroyed at Dyagilevo": direct post-strike imagery showed no damage there, and the panel denied that 3–0 as well.

Fabricated. The attack was real; much of its viral evidence was not. A video "showing the aftermath" was viewed millions of times before BBC Verify's Shayan Sardarizadeh flagged it: "While the attack did happen, this video is AI-generated and fake" [x3]. Euronews traced other viral Spiderweb strike clips to modded Arma 3 video-game footage from a YouTube channel whose own disclaimer — "All videos on the channel are a simulation of combat operations in the game Arma 3" — was stripped when the clips were recaptioned [h6].

The Iran case: two wars, one playbook

Established. The IAEA's official record of the June 2025 strikes is the baseline no viral post ever quoted: at Natanz, the above-ground pilot enrichment plant was "functionally destroyed" and strikes on underground cascade halls were "seriously damaging"; at Esfahan four buildings were damaged; off-site radiation levels remained normal; and — as of June 20, 2025, before the US strikes of June 22 — "The Agency is not aware of any damage at Fordow at this time" [f8]. More than 400 kg of uranium enriched up to 60% remained under safeguards pending resumed inspections [f8]. In the 2026 war, the pattern of state-linked AI propaganda, platform countermeasures, and assistant mislabelling is documented across the record [f9] [w10].

Attributed. The characterisations of the June 22 US strikes on Fordow are a live study in attributed claims wearing established costume. The President, hours after the strikes: the raids "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's key enrichment facilities [p2]. That sentence trended as fact.

Disputed. The intelligence record never matched the podium. A leaked Defense Intelligence Agency preliminary assessment — explicitly low-confidence — found the sites damaged but not destroyed and the program delayed by months, noting Iran had moved enriched uranium away before the strikes [p2]. The IAEA assessed "enormous damage"; Iran's own foreign minister conceded "significant and serious damages"; Israeli intelligence assessed the program damaged but not destroyed; a Pentagon assessment in July settled on roughly a two-year setback [p2]. Months versus years versus "obliterated" is a genuine dispute between competent sources — so it sits in the disputed layer, and the panel below refused to affirm the strongest version. What no source disputes: the strikes happened, the damage was severe, and the pre-strike IAEA baseline for Fordow was "no damage known" as of June 20 [f8].

Fabricated. The June 2025 catalogue is long and specific. The viral video of the Evin Prison explosion — relayed worldwide by major broadcasters — was AI-generated [f3], and the Citizen Lab's forensic timeline shows the deepfake was posted while the real strike was still underway, minutes ahead of any organic footage: fabrication running ahead of reality on the same event [f4]. Misbar's forensics on the "Al-Udeid base strike" image returned a 99.1% AI-generation probability; the Bat Yam "moment of impact" video carried a visible Veo watermark; the viral "Tel Aviv aftermath" aerial video was uploaded two weeks before the war began [f2]. Full Fact documented a compilation where three of four "CCTV strike clips" were AI-generated and one was real — fake and genuine footage laundered together in a single viral object [f1]. PolitiFact traced a "massive fire in Tel Aviv" video to an April 2025 fire at an abandoned English college [f10]. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists noted a "Tel Aviv burning" video predating the conflict by over a month, and Iranian state TV airing Chilean wildfire footage as strike damage [f6].

The panel record: five claims, fifteen votes, every receipt live

The contested and load-bearing claims above were put to a three-model panel — GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.7, Grok 4.5 — under one rule: judge only the verbatim spans provided, with conflicting sources included and no verdict embedded in the prompt. The votes and their reasoning are attached to this page as model cards with the raw request and response payloads. The receipts resolve on this site's public ledger.

Claim	Rating	GLM 5.2	Kimi K2.7	Grok 4.5	Outcome
Operation Spiderweb (June 1, 2025) destroyed 41 Russian military aircraft.	HARD	DENY	DENY	DENY	unanimous DENY
Independent satellite imagery confirms approximately 13 Russian aircraft destroyed at the Belaya and Olenya air bases in the June 1, 2025 attack.	MODERATE	DENY	CANNOT_CONCLUDE	DENY	SPLIT: glm DENY / kimi CANNOT_CONCLUDE / grok DENY
Russian aircraft were destroyed at the Dyagilevo air base in the June 1, 2025 attack.	MODERATE	DENY	DENY	DENY	unanimous DENY
The June 22, 2025 US strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment program.	HARD	DENY	DENY	DENY	unanimous DENY
The widely-circulated video of the explosion at Tehran's Evin Prison on June 23, 2025 is authentic footage of the Israeli strike.	MODERATE	DENY	DENY	DENY	unanimous DENY

Two results deserve attention beyond the verdicts. First, on "Operation Spiderweb destroyed 41 Russian aircraft," all three models independently found the same defect: the 41 figure is real, from a real source, describing aircraft struck — and it hardened into destroyed as it circulated. The most durable form of war misinformation is exactly this: a true number with its verb swapped. Second, the panel refused a claim this page itself previously carried. An earlier revision stated that "independent satellite imagery confirms roughly 13 Russian aircraft destroyed." Put to the panel span-by-span, that wording failed — GLM and Grok noted the imagery spans provided support 9 to 11 airframes and that the "13" tally traces to a Ukrainian official's statement, and Kimi returned CANNOT_CONCLUDE for the same reason. The corrected claim now reads: independent imagery supports roughly 9 to 13 destroyed depending on count method — far below 41 in every method. A ledger that cannot correct itself against its own machinery is a press release.

The hunt: viral claims that outran their corrections

The base above is the reference. The hunt is what it is for: viral claims, each with documented reach, that conflicted with the certified record — most of which never received a durable correction where they spread.

Combat footage of Iran shooting down Israeli F-35s in June 2025 — actually Arma 3 video-game footage from 2022 — reach: 3M+ views one X post; also FB/IG/TikTok; status: false; documented by AAP FactCheck / AFP [h1]. Community Note at time of debunk: unknown.
Person with torch beside downed US F-35 — Iran shot down an American F-35 — reach: viral on X/TikTok; related clip 21M+ TikTok views per Snopes; status: false; documented by The Quint WebQoof [h2]. Community Note at time of debunk: unknown.
US B-2 stealth bomber shot down by Iran and paraded with captured crew — reach: viral on X and Facebook; status: false; documented by Full Fact [h3]. Community Note at time of debunk: unknown.
Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport destroyed by Iranian missile strikes, June 2025 — reach: widely shared FB/IG/X; status: false; documented by Full Fact [h4]. Community Note at time of debunk: unknown.
AI 'aftermath' video of Operation Spiderweb + inflated tallies ($7bn, 34% of strategic bombers) — reach: video viewed millions of times; carrier post 11,251 likes / 1,871 RT; status: false; documented by BBC Verify (Sardarizadeh) [h5]. Community Note at time of debunk: unknown.
Operation Spiderweb strike clips — actually modded Arma 3 gameplay from YouTube channel UWC, recaptioned — reach: hundreds of thousands of views TikTok/FB/YouTube; status: misattributed; documented by Euronews EuroVerify [h6]. Community Note at time of debunk: unknown.
'USA bombed Iran's nuclear facilities' Facebook reel — actually mirrored 2020 Beirut port explosion footage — reach: 3.1M views, 22,300 reactions, 1,300 shares; status: misattributed; documented by VERA Files [h7]. Community Note at time of debunk: unknown.
Fake Al Arabiya-branded video: Zelenskyy bought a $3.2M Dubai apartment for his mother — reach: spread via Russian Telegram channels from June 5 2025; status: false; documented by RFE/RL Schemes; Ukraine CCD [h8]. Community Note at time of debunk: unknown.

The pattern across all eight: reach in the millions, correction in the thousands, and no stable object at the end that a reply, a note, or a model could cite. Each case above now has one.

The fabrication techniques index

Across both wars, the documented fabrications reduce to six repeatable techniques, each with named examples on this ledger:

Synthetic generation — Veo 3 and equivalent tools produced the Evin video, the Bat Yam impact clip, the Spiderweb "aftermath," the paraded B-2, the downed F-35 [f2] [f3] [x3] [h2] [h3]. GetReal's tell: the ~8-second clip length [f5].
Recycling — the Beirut 2020 explosion as a US strike on Iran [h7]; an English college fire as a Tel Aviv missile strike [f10]; Chilean wildfires as Israeli damage on Iranian state TV [f6].
Video-game footage — Arma 3 gameplay recaptioned as Iranian air defenses downing F-35s [h1] and as Spiderweb strike footage [h6], against the game developer's own public warnings.
Brand impersonation — fake BBC-branded video on Ukraine's first lady seeking asylum, confirmed fake by the BBC itself [w9]; a fake Wired video alleging a Ukrainian bot campaign [w2]; a fake ISW-branded false-flag warning [w3]; a fake Al Arabiya report on a Zelenskyy Dubai apartment, traced to a sanctioned Kremlin-backed outfit [h8]; splices of real Western anchors [w6].
Verb-swapping and qualifier-stripping — "struck" to "destroyed" (Spiderweb), announced strikes before impact (Iran) [f6], real numbers with invented precision.
Industrialised networks — CopyCop's 300+ fake sites with a fake fact-checker attached [w12]; Doppelganger/Undercut posting a single image over one hundred times in hours across nine languages [w5]; PRISONBREAK's 50+ accounts synchronised with a military campaign [f4]; 2024's alternate-reality catalogue of invented NATO deaths and Zelensky mansions [w6].

Against X specifically

The X API is this system's capture-and-monitor layer. A production run against a contested post: pull the post and its media, snapshot author and timing, search for the claim and its contradictions, treat any Community Note as one input rather than the verdict, convene the disagreeing panel, publish the case file at a stable URL, and watch the thread — re-running as the post is edited or amplified. The highest-value target is precisely the class documented above: the trending claim with no note, which the DDIA data says is the common case, not the exception [w10]. The six X posts bound to this page as evidence nodes — Sardarizadeh's corrections and Grok's own replies identifying recycled and synthetic clips [x1] [x2] [x3] [x4] [x5] [x6] — show both what the platform's native correction looks like and why it needs a durable object behind it: a reply evaporates; a ledger entry with sources, spans, and signed verdicts does not.

What this is and is not

It is not a claim that any model is an oracle — three disagreeing adjudicators exist so that none is trusted alone, and the record above includes a genuine three-way split. It is not partisan — the same loop denied a Ukrainian official figure and documented Israeli, Iranian, and Russian state fabrication in the same pass. And it is not a promise: every verdict above ran live, every receipt resolves, and the page corrected its own prior wording when the machinery caught it.

If you work on election integrity, conflict monitoring, platform trust and safety, or newsroom verification and want one contested claim run end to end — base established, panel convened, case file published — name it at /inquire or build@miscsubjects.com. The first bounded case is free, and the record publishes either way.

References (66)

Video compilation includes faked clips of Israeli missile strikes on Iranian bases — Full Fact, Dec 5, 2025“Three of these clips are not real, and were probably made with artificial intelligence.”
How AI Fueled Disinformation in the Iran-Israel Escalation — Misbar, Jun 30, 2025“Misbar's team used the Hive Moderation AI-detection tool to analyze the image and found a 99.1% probability that it is generated using artificial intelligence.”
Yes, this viral video of Tehran's Evin Prison explosion is AI-generated — France 24, Jun 30, 2025“Further evidence now confirms that the video is not authentic.”
PRISONBREAK: An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime — The Citizen Lab, Oct 14, 2025“A coordinated network of more than 50 inauthentic X profiles is conducting an AI-enabled influence operation.”
AI-Generated Videos Are Fueling Falsehoods About Iran-Israel Conflict, Says Hany Farid — UC Berkeley iSchool / CBS News, Jun 27, 2025“Now it's full blown video with explosions, with what looks like handheld mobile device imaging”
Israel and Iran exchange words along with weapons — Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jun 18, 2025“This announcement was made before those projectiles had even entered Israeli airspace, suggesting an intent to use the operation for propaganda”
Fake, AI-generated images and videos of the Iran war are spreading on social media — CNN, Mar 11, 2026“Now you see hundreds of them, and they're really realistic.”
Director General Grossi's Statement to the UN Security Council on the Situation in Iran — IAEA, Jun 20, 2025“Attacks on nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic of Iran have caused a sharp degradation in nuclear safety and security in Iran.”
Misinformation during the 2026 Iran war — Wikipedia, Aug 3, 2026“pro-Iranian government accounts on X posted AI-generated propaganda that quickly went viral”
Viral video claims to show fire from Israel-Iran war, but it's from an abandoned England college — PolitiFact, Jun 23, 2025“The video shared on social media is not related to the Israel-Iran war.”
Ukraine confirms 41 Russian aircraft including bombers hit during Operation Spiderweb — Kyiv Independent, Jun 3, 2025“the total losses of the occupiers amounted to 41 military aircraft, including strategic bombers and other types of combat aircraft”
Ukrainian drones target Russian airbases in unprecedented operation — Al Jazeera, Jun 1, 2025“In the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, the launch of FPV drones resulted in several aircraft catching fire”
Latest On Russian Aircraft Loss Assessments From Ukrainian Drone Strikes — The War Zone, Jun 3, 2025“at least four Tu-95s likely damaged or destroyed”
Operation Spiderweb: Covert Drone Strike Inside Russia — Janes, Jun 12, 2025“Janes assesses that the FPV drone attack destroyed 12 aircraft, damaged two, and possibly damaged eight others”
Satellite Imagery Confirms Destruction of 13 Aircraft at Belaya and Olenya Air Bases — Militarnyi, Jun 4, 2025“Four Tu-95 strategic bombers were destroyed at the Russian Belaya air base”
Before-and-After Satellite Images Reveal Russian 'Pearl Harbor' Devastation — Newsweek, Jun 4, 2025“intact bomber aircraft in revetments replaced by charred remains and blackened craters”
Exclusive: Ukraine hit fewer Russian planes than it estimated, US officials say — Reuters, Jun 4, 2025“Ukraine's drone attack over the weekend hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them”
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 1, 2025 — Institute for the Study of War, Jun 1, 2025“The SBU was reportedly able to launch the FPV drones close to the targeted Russian air bases”
Confirmed Losses Of Russian Aircraft Mount After Ukrainian Drone Assault — The War Zone, Jun 4, 2025“At least six (and more likely seven) Tu-95MS and four Tu-22M3 bombers were destroyed”
Disinformation Review: EU Sanctions and the Kremlin's Recycled Narratives — EUvsDisinfo, Apr 24, 2026“The false claim appeared on a Spanish-language version of the Russian state propaganda outlet RT.”
Fake: Ukraine Launched a Massive Bot Attack on YouTube — StopFake, Mar 7, 2025“Wired has never published such claims, and the video itself was probably created using AI.”
Fake: Ukraine's Intelligence Services Are Planning a False-Flag Terror Attack - ISW — StopFake, Jul 8, 2026“The video is fabricated, and the information it contains was published by neither the Institute for the Study of War nor any other credible source.”
Ros Atkins on... Ukraine's Operation 'Spider's Web' — BBC Verify, Jun 6, 2025“BBC Analysis Editor Ros Atkins and the BBC Verify team build up a picture of what happened and how it was done.”
Cross-platform, multilingual Russian operations promote pro-Kremlin content — DFRLab, Feb 26, 2025“The campaign uses bot accounts for amplification; we observed that it can post these images more than one hundred times within a few hours.”
Headlines from an alternate reality: fake news stories about Ukraine Russian propagandists created and amplified in 2024 — Meduza, Jan 3, 2025“Much of the photo 'evidence,' like other material on the sites, was AI-generated.”
US funding cuts create openings for Russian disinformation in Ukraine — Atlantic Council, Apr 15, 2025“After that, we're bracing for a flood of unchecked Russian propaganda to fill the vacuum.”
Marco Rubio interview altered to show him threaten Ukraine's Starlink access — Reuters Fact Check, Mar 14, 2025“A CNN interview with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been altered online to falsely suggest he threatened to end the Ukrainian army's access”
BBC-branded video on Ukraine's first lady seeking asylum is a fake report — Reuters Fact Check, Apr 15, 2025“The video mimics the British broadcaster's formatting for visual reports on social media, with multiple uses of its logo”
AI fakes about Iran-US war swirl on X despite policy crackdown — AFP via CEDMO, Mar 25, 2026“The feeds I monitor are still flooded with AI-generated content about the war”
Iranian State-Affiliated False Claims Tracker: 26 Myths about the War and Counting — NewsGuard, Jun 26, 2025“The wing, exhaust, and fuselage in the image are inconsistent with real F-35 jets.”
CopyCop Deepens Its Playbook with New Websites and Targets — Recorded Future, Jan 1, 2025“CopyCop uses these websites as infrastructure to disseminate influence content targeting pro-Western leadership and publish artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content.”
CCD Reports — Center for Countering Disinformation (Ukraine), 2025-2026“analysed the evolution of the aggressor state's use of deepfake technology and other artificial intelligence-based video generation tools”
Grok struggles with fact-checking amid Israel-Iran war — DFRLab, Jun 24, 2025“Grok was inconsistent in its fact-checking, struggling to authenticate AI-generated media”
2025 United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites — Wikipedia, Aug 4, 2026“completely and totally obliterated Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities”
Board to address AI-generated content in the Israel-Iran conflict — Meta Oversight Board, Jan 1, 2025“Board to address AI-generated content in the Israel-Iran conflict”
Verifying the authenticity of videos claiming to show Israeli and Iranian airstrikes — Euronews, Jun 16, 2025“videos have been clearly generated using AI”
AI-generated videos are fueling falsehoods about Iran-Israel conflict — CBS News, Jun 1, 2025“AI-generated videos and images of the conflict amassed hundreds of millions of views”
@Shayan86 (BBC Verify) — verified via syndication — X, May 14, 2024“Fake BBC News video citing a non-existent Bellingcat report is 100% fake — at least the 7th fake BBC-Bellingcat video since November 2023 spreading pro-Kremlin disinformation about Ukraine”
@Shayan86 — verified via syndication — X, Apr 9, 2026“'That clip is so clearly AI-generated and fake' — reply to a post carrying a platform Manipulated-media label”
@Shayan86 — verified via syndication — X, Jun 3, 2025“Video purporting to show aftermath of Ukrainian drone attack on Russian bombers viewed millions of times: the attack did happen, this video is AI-generated and fake. Quoted German post claimed $7bn destroyed / 34% of strategic bombers (11,251 likes, ”
@grok — verified via syndication — X, Mar 6, 2026“B-2 downed-and-paraded video is AI-generated fake; CENTCOM confirms zero losses from strikes on Iran; BBC Verify exposed it as fabricated propaganda viewed millions of times”
@grok — verified via syndication — X, Jun 19, 2025“Video posted June 18 2025 is not from June 19; authenticity doubtful; BBC Verify's Sardarizadeh says AI-generated and fake; no official Iranian media confirms it”
@grok — verified via syndication — X, Aug 4, 2026“Video is not real footage from US bases in Jordan/Kuwait/Bahrain/Gulf; recycled clip from Chinese platforms March 2026, fact-checked as AI-generated with clear artifacts”
Debunk: Combat footage of Iran shooting down Israeli F-35s in June 2025 — actually Arma 3 video-game footage — AAP FactCheck / AFP“Gameplay footage had been falsely used as footage from real-life conflicts”
Debunk: Person with torch beside downed US F-35 — Iran shot down an American F-35 — The Quint WebQoof“The video is an AI-generated one and does not show a real F-35 jet.”
Debunk: US B-2 stealth bomber shot down by Iran and paraded with captured crew — Full Fact“B-2 aircraft are only manned by a crew of two.”
Debunk: Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport destroyed by Iranian missile strikes, June 2025 — Full Fact“This video isn't real. It has probably been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).”
Debunk: AI 'aftermath' video of Operation Spiderweb + inflated tallies ($7bn, 34% of strategic bombers) — BBC Verify (Sardarizadeh)“While the attack did happen, this video is AI-generated and fake.”
Debunk: Operation Spiderweb strike clips — actually modded Arma 3 gameplay from YouTube channel UWC, recapti — Euronews EuroVerify“All videos on the channel are a simulation of combat operations in the game Arma 3.”
Debunk: 'USA bombed Iran's nuclear facilities' Facebook reel — actually mirrored 2020 Beirut port explosion — VERA Files“The footage shows the massive blast that rocked the port area of Beirut, Lebanon, on Aug. 4, 2020.”
Debunk: Fake Al Arabiya-branded video: Zelenskyy bought a $3.2M Dubai apartment for his mother — RFE/RL Schemes; Ukraine CCD“a debunked report that claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bought a $3.2 million apartment in Dubai for his mother”
miscsubjects.com/receipt/inv_i7fjwwm08s“Independent assessments (Janes, Reuters/US officials) conclude 10 to 12 aircraft were destroyed, not 41. The 41 figure refers to total claimed "losses" (Kyi”
miscsubjects.com/receipt/inv_wtpjmnvcrq“The 41 figure describes aircraft 'struck' or 'losses,' not 'destroyed.' Zelenskyy's own statement limits irreparable damage to about half of 41, while independent assessments (Janes 12 destroyed; US officials ~10 destroyed; imagery 4-10 bombers) fall far below 41.”
miscsubjects.com/api/chain/head“Ukrainian sources claim 41 losses or struck aircraft, with Zelenskyy noting only half irreparable. Independent assessments and imagery confirm far fewer destroyed (around 10-12). Claim of 41 destroyed is unsupported.”
miscsubjects.com/receipt/inv_frtavu8245“Independent satellite imagery sources tally far fewer than 13: Militarnyi counts 4 at Belaya and 5 at Olenya (9 total); The War Zone's Maxar/Planet assessment yields 10-11. The only '13' figure comes from Ukrainian NSDC official Kovalenko — a belligerent party claim, not independent imagery confirma”
miscsubjects.com/receipt/inv_bofrznb4x0“The '13 destroyed' figure comes from a Ukrainian official, not from independent satellite imagery. Separate imagery-based counts total fewer aircraft or use qualified 'damaged or destroyed' language, so the evidence does not independently confirm the approximate 13 figure at both bases.”
miscsubjects.com/api/chain/head“Imagery sources confirm only 4 Tu-95 at Belaya plus 4 Tu-95 and 1 An-12 at Olenya (total 9), or 6-7 Tu-95MS plus 4 Tu-22M3 (~10-11) without base totals equaling 13. The ~13 figure is solely a Ukrainian official claim, not independent satellite confirmation.”
miscsubjects.com/receipt/inv_z1sk4pd4r2“The only source specifically addressing Dyagilevo states satellite imagery showed no obvious aircraft damage, contradicting the claim that aircraft were destroyed there. General assessments of”
miscsubjects.com/receipt/inv_2g1f65ts33“The claim is specific to Dyagilevo. Direct, independent satellite imagery of Dyagilevo showed no obvious aircraft damage. The source stating 'destroyed' aircraft did not tie that destruction to Dyagilevo in the given span.”
miscsubjects.com/api/chain/head“Specific post-attack imagery of Dyagilevo shows no aircraft damage. Russian MoD states assaults repelled except Murmansk/Irkutsk. General destruction tallies from Ukraine/Janes lack Dyagilevo specificity and conflict with base-level evidence.”
miscsubjects.com/receipt/inv_7oo41tq17t“Multiple independent sources (DIA, IAEA, Israeli intelligence, Iran's own FM) consistently describe the sites as "damaged," not obliterated, and Israeli intelligence explicitly states the program "has not been destroyed." Trump's "obliterated" claim refers to "facilities" and is a political claim, n”
miscsubjects.com/receipt/inv_zjqnq5k87f“The claim of an 'obliterated' program is contradicted by multiple sources. DIA says sites damaged but not destroyed and program delayed months; Israeli intelligence says the program has not been destroyed; the Pentagon cites a ~2-year setback. Even IAEA and Iranian descriptions cite 'damage,' not an”
miscsubjects.com/api/chain/head“Trump claimed obliteration of facilities, but DIA, Israeli intel, Pentagon, IAEA and Iran all describe only damage or multi-month/year delays. Uranium was pre-moved. No source confirms program destruction.”
miscsubjects.com/receipt/inv_cso58tvabf“Multiple sources explicitly state the widely-circulated video is inauthentic, identifying it as an AI-generated deepfake rather than authentic footage of the Israeli strike.”
miscsubjects.com/receipt/inv_cyytz7vhc4“France 24 directly assesses the widely-circulated video as inauthentic. Citizen Lab separately reports an AI-generated deepfake of an Evin Prison strike was posted minutes before organic footage appeared, independently corroborating fabrication of the viral clip.”
miscsubjects.com/api/chain/head“France 24 directly states the widely shared video is not authentic. Citizen Lab corroborates an AI deepfake of the Evin strike circulated before real footage, amid broader AI influence ops. Real strikes occurred but do not validate this video.”

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