“Is this true or false image?” Any recent war has accustomed us to a proliferation of misinformation in social networks. The conflict between Iran and Israel is not saved, quite the opposite.
The reasons behind the publication of such contents are purely propagandists. Regardless of the veracity of the content, the objective is to demonstrate to Internet users that their armed forces can stand up. At the same time, these images come to sow doubts and fear in the opponent.
Platforms such as X, Facebook, Instagram or Tiktok have become the main vectors of this fallacious content. Simplified access to tools for the generation of images and videos becomes a real scourge for those who want to learn about online conflict. But AI is not the only source of misinformation, Internet users also use decontextualized images or even video game images.
Ai, infinite source of misinformation
The generation of AI becomes an essential tool for online propaganda in times of war. The beginning of the war between Iran and Israel has exploited an abusive use of these technologies.
In this first image shared on Facebook, we see a spirit of Northrop B-2, the American bombing model that went to nuclear sites in Iran, visibly damaged after the attack.
The image is really generated by AI. The non -existing shadows of people or flat remains that resemble waste more betray the veracity of the image.
In other photos, the generation of AI is much more shameless as in these images in X that present serious scale problems (too large aircraft and people of the same size as houses).
In another photo published in X, you can see an Israeli plane F-35 supposedly demolished by Iran. What betray this image? First, it seems to be taken to humans, but this plane model measures more than 4.3 meters high. In addition, the shape of the plane does not correspond to that of an F-35 as specified by certain users under the image.
More recently, this image of Doha in Qatar lights the networks. We would see the US military base installed in the country burning in the background, after an Iranian missile is affected.
However, this skyscraper alignment does not exist in Doha and at the bottom of the image, there are streets full of housing too uniform. Online AI detectors are unanimous, the image has been generated.
Decontextualized images
Why request AI, when you can resume the existing content? The images with a completely modified context are massively spread in the networks. Sometimes dated several years, these contents are shaking, therefore, to deceive Internet users.
Maybe you crossed this very broadcast video where several aircraft, supposedly Israeli, fly on Iraq to Iran.
This story does not correspond to the context of the basic video. This last October 2024 and is actually a group of Egyptian aircraft, not Israelis.
Always in X, we can see this circular photo of an F-35 accident, supposedly filmed by Iran. This time, in fact it is a real photo, but the accident occurred in New Mexico in May 2024.
Finally in X, we can see these images since yesterday of a possible Iranian intercontinental missile. This time, the video was taken from the Instagram account of a photography enthusiast that regularly takes off his Spacex Video rockets.
Video games are also used
More original, some images captured the air fights of land samples between the Iranian devices and the Israel aircraft. They are actually directly out of a video game, identifiable in ball shots that look like shots of blasters in Star Wars.
These extracts do not leave a game inspired by the war of the Star but Weapon 3A war simulation game released in 2013. We see the similarity in this game video.
Another example with This video in xthat has been seen more than 1.6 million times. We see an American bomber killed by an Iranian missile. In addition to the very low probability that a simple missile triggered from the ground can reach a maximum American plane, an element betrays the video. These are the first seconds in which the grass seems very pixelated and the brightness is not realistic.
Actually, the scene was probably recreated in the game War thunder. The vehicle we see in the video, an Osa-Akm is playable in the game, as is the famous B-2 bomber.
This is not the first time that video games have been exploited in propaganda campaigns in times of war. During the Kashmir conflict in May 2025, the official Government of Pakistan had transmitted images of the game Weapon 3 To illustrate the conflict between him to India.
Source: BFM TV
