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As US-Israel strikes on Iran escalate, AI-generated war misinformation has surged online. X dismantled a Pakistan-based network running 31 fake accounts and updated its revenue-sharing rules, suspending users who post undisclosed AI conflict videos to curb coordinated disinformation campaigns.
Amid the ongoing conflict in Iran, social media platforms like X are now witnessing a surge in misinformation, including fake war-related videos, created with the help of artificial intelligence. Recently, billionaire Elon Musk-owned X revealed that it dismantled a network operating from Pakistan that was posting fake content online.
Nikita Bier, head of product at X, in a post, said, "Last night, we found a guy in Pakistan who was managing 31 accounts posting AI war videos. All were hacked, and the usernames were changed on Feb 27 to ‘Iran War Monitor’ or some derivative.”
Bier further said that the accounts were taken down immediately as part of the platform's ongoing efforts to detect and curb coordinated misinformation campaigns. “We are getting much faster at detecting this - and also eliminating the incentive to do this," he noted.
His response was in connection with an X post, which shared a deepfake video of an Iranian rocket hitting a ship in Israel's capital, Tel Aviv. In the bio, the person posting the content claimed to be a Gaza journalist.
X revises Creator Revenue Sharing policies
Following the incident in Pakistan, Bier, on Tuesday, announced that the platform is now revising its Creator Revenue-Sharing policies to maintain the authenticity of the content and to prevent manipulation of the programme. In a post, he wrote, “During times of war, it is critical that people have access to authentic information on the ground. With today’s AI technologies, it is trivial to create content that can mislead people.”
Elaborating further, Bier said that all those users who will post artificial intelligence (AI)-generated videos of an armed conflict, without adding a disclosure that it was made with AI, will be suspended from the platform's Creator Revenue Sharing for three months. He said repeat breaches would lead to a permanent ban from the programme.
Misinformation surges during the US-Iran-Israel conflict
As the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on 28 February, there has been a surge in misinformation being shared online. As the conflict has now entered its fifth day, scores of images and videos, which are being generated by AI, are being posted online, claiming to show the damage that the strikes across Iran have caused. Meanwhile, investigators and fact-checking groups have warned that a large portion of the content circulating online has been altered or completely fabricated.
In an example cited by the Financial Times, a satellite image was widely shared, including by the official X handle of Iran’s Tehran Times, claiming it showed damage to a US radar facility in Qatar after an Iranian drone attack. However, an analysis by the Financial Times found that the image has been modified using AI. However, further analysis found that although the radar site had sustained some impact, the viral image itself had been digitally altered using AI and was actually based on imagery from a site in Bahrain.
This is not the first time that misinformation during a conflict has surged. Similar instances were reported during India and Pakistan's conflict in May 2025 and the Israel-Iran war in June 2025.
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