(Natural News)
An image purportedly showing an explosion at the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in Virginia triggered a frenzy of turmoil on social media and caused a market downturn. However, the said image was found to be a fake one generated using artificial intelligence (AI).
Several news outlets tweeted the image, among them Russia’s RT and India’s Republic TV. The Russian outlet initially captioned it as an actual explosion, before deleting its tweet. It later wrote: “Republic TV had aired news of a possible explosion near the Pentagon, citing a post [and] picture tweeted by RT. RT has deleted
