De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, promoting seats at €1,600. Bellingcat found that the image in the interview was likely AI-generated, and flight-tracking data suggests no such plane took off.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/12/ai-used-to-promote-non-existent-evacuation-flights-from-the-middle-east/?utm_source=mastodon
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Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? http:// bellingcat.com/donate/ Buy our book "We Are Bellingcat" here: http:// bit.ly/2EP09EN Our award-winning podcast series: http:// apple.co/36LJURI
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