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How AI fakes are clouding the Iran war

Plus: A new CNN investigation into AI chatbots Wednesday, March 11, 2026 View in browser   Received this email from a friend? Sign up here. Welcome to Wednesday. Here's the latest on David Ellison, Smartmatic, "The View," TIME, Anthropic, the Meta Oversight Board, "Project Hail Mary," and more. But first...   How AI fakes cloud the Iran war Fake videos and images purporting to show Iran war scenes have "racked up tens of millions of views on social media platforms" this month, Daniel Dale reports in this detailed new piece for CNN .   "One fake video shows a fictional barrage of Iranian missiles supposedly striking Tel Aviv, Israel," he writes. "A second fake video depicts panicked people fleeing a supposed Iranian attack on an airport in Tel Aviv. A third fake video purports to show captured US special forces personnel being held at gunpoint by Iranian troo...