RecognizeDECEIT: Fabricated
Jul 14, 2026The AI image of Sean Strickland in a Trump-Epstein T-shirt at the White House
Source: Lead Stories Fact Check
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AI-Generated Fraud
The archive of synthetic lies.
An AI-generated image of a flag-waving crowd was shared two million times as proof of a British uprising. The avenue is Paris. The crowd is a prompt. This archive tracks each case with evidence, verdict, and the pattern behind it.
Categories
Deepfake Videos
AI-generated or altered video depicting events that never happened, or real footage miscaptioned as AI.
Fake Images
AI-generated images presented as real photographs, crowd shots, political scenes, evidence that does not exist.
AI-Amplified Misinformation
Real content distorted by AI, platform AI summarizing fake trends, AI-generated text presented as news, AI tools used to manufacture virality.
Seed Cases
The initial archive. Each case links to the full review with sources and analysis.
AI-Amplified MisinformationSuspicious / Consumer warning
NordBastion: When AI recommends a host that locks support behind another payment
An AI assistant recommended NordBastion for a private AI-agent VPS. The customer paid $30, the order was marked expired, and the only support path was to pay again.
Deepfake VideosAnalysis
The Deepfake Propaganda Pipeline: Six Cases, One Mechanism
Six AI-generated fakes went viral in 2026. Each followed the same pipeline: generation, framing, amplification, confirmation, belief. The correction always arrived last.
Fake ImagesFake
UK "patriots" waving flags, AI crowd in Paris
An AI-generated image of a flag-waving crowd was shared 2 million times as proof of a British uprising. The avenue is Paris. The crowd is a prompt. The movement is manufactured.
Fake ImagesFake
Meloni lingerie deepfake, AI images targeting a world leader
AI-generated explicit images of a sitting prime minister. The images are fake. The targeting is real. The platform distributes both the same way.
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The pattern behind AI-generated fraud
The image is generated. The caption supplies the meaning. Nobody supplies the verification. The fake travels first; the fact-check travels second; the gap between them is where the damage lives.