The Los Angeles immigration protests have become ground zero for propaganda due to a flood of fabrications, including false videos, pictures, and texts.  ,
Much of the content on social media is intended to stoke the flames, rehash older conspiracy theories, and pique people’s support for President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, which include a regular deportation limit.  ,
The majority of the virtual aggressive posts appear to show the entire city of Los Angeles strewn in embers with rioters and looters scurrying rampant on the streets. What is being shown, mainly through an intellectual lens, isn’t always the truth, despite the harsh clashes, vandalism, and arrests that have occurred.  ,
According to Make America Great Again apprentice Laura Loomer, who has 1.7 million fans on X,  advanced , claims that artificial intelligence created two photographs of California National Guard personnel sleeping on the concrete surface of a Los Angeles federal building taken by the San Francisco Chronicle.  ,
” Looks like @GavinNewsom used an AI pictures to slander President Trump , Democrats “love lying,” she wrote on X.
Loomer’s blog, which has more than 340, 000 views, has remained up even though the Pentagon after confirmed the images ‘ integrity.  ,
Grok, X’s AI bot, also jumped in, immediately claiming the information outlet’s images “probably came from Afghanistan.”
It was “unfortunate that hundreds of people, some of them with hundreds of thousands of supporters, went on social media to fake undermine photos that are 100 % accurate,” according to San Francisco Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Emilio Garca Ruiz.
He continued,” It’s all part of a larger effort to undermine the status of hard-working editors and to submit a false narrative that conflicts with a political philosophy without being truthful.”  ,
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX ) received criticism for reposting a video that was originally posted by actor James Woods on X that depicted several police cars being damaged and set on fire in a separate incident. Woods remarked, “I’ll put up if I hear one more communist beg in the mainstream media say “peaceful demonstrations.”
Multiple sources immediately verified that the video was actually from 2020 after conducting a fact check on it.
You’re a U.S. Senator, so you ought to apologise and erase this message. Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan remarked,” It’s true misinformation.”  ,
This picture does not belong to this year, according to progressive advocate Harry Sisson. This is obvious propaganda. Why do you tell lies? Dictapose and apologize, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, lots of content on X have spread conspiracies about the events taking place in Los Angeles. Many of those messages have more than a million opinions, but little fact checking is done.  ,
Online scams could lead to an increase, according to Darren Linvill, a scientist at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub.  ,
It “has the ability to worsen” the position on the ground because people will be more enamored of their core ideas, he said.  ,
An AI-generated video on TikTok purportedly shows a National Guardsman named Bob livestreaming how he was getting ready for” today’s gas” of protesters.
Before it was removed, the picture had been viewed roughly 1 million times.
Some commenters characterized the movie as a clear fake, while others appeared to believe it to be true.
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Renee DiResta, an expert on how conspiracy theories spread online, told CNN,” What’s happening on social media is similar to the chaos of the information culture around the 2020 George Floyd rallies.” DiResta is an associate studies teacher at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
People are attempting to distinguish between recovered dramatic old footage that has been used for political or financial purposes, she said.
