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Iran spread anti-Israel, US disinformation to global media through fake journalists, OpenAI says

Beyond helping operators place content before wider audiences, OpenAI said AI enabled malicious actors to conduct operations with greater scale, efficiency, linguistic fluency, and editorial ability.

An illustrative photo of a laptop displaying the Iranian flag, representing Iran in a digital or cyber context, March 27, 2026.
 A member of the media walks at the area of Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, October 18, 2023

The vanishing terrorists: The New York Times' new Gaza reporting strategy - opinion

Lebanese army troops deploy at the entrance of the town of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh, after Israeli forces withdrew from the area, Lebanon, July 21, 2026

Lebanon's proposed information law raises concern for press freedom, limits Palestinian media jobs

Vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, June 10, 2026.

Trump says Iran has told US no tolls being sought at Strait of Hormuz


Wine Talk: In vino veritas

Closer examination shows how wineries are prepared to have a very flexible interpretation of the facts, to suit the imagination of a particular marketing department of the time

 THE COUNTRY’S largest vineyard lies next to Barkan Winery.

Letters to the Editor March 13, 2023: Blatant omissions

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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Americans tend to share fake news to fit in socially, French study reports

“Conformity and social pressure are key motivators of the spread of fake news,” said lead researcher assistant Prof. of decision sciences Matthew Asher Lawson

Fake news [Illustrative]

Sharing news on social media can stop you knowing what's true - study

"Just asking people whether they want to share things makes them more likely to believe headlines they wouldn't otherwise have believed" - Dr. David Rand, a professor at MIT and co-author of the study

Is Facebook the most hateful social media network? (illustrative)

Iran mobilizes misinformation about school poisonings - analysis

Iranian pro-regime media are afraid that the regime will be blamed, so they have deployed a number of theories about what happened in order to distract attention from the events.

 People gather around an ambulance outside a girls school after reports of poisoning in Fardis, Alborz province, Iran in this undated video still image released March 1, 2023 and obtained by REUTERS

Israel artifact bearing name of King Darius the Great revealed to be fake

The forged "artifact" was discovered earlier this week after a foreign researcher left it behind at the excavation site last summer.

 The Darius inscription.

Can Israel stop ex-intel agents from breaking human rights, democratic elections? - analysis

How can the Jewish state prevent its former intelligence agents from using their skills in the private sector in violation of human rights and democratic elections?

 Israeli perspective on artificial intelligence (Illustrative).

True stories get more Reddit upvotes than fake news - Ohio study

Posts on the social media site Reddit with news articles fact-checked as true got more engagement, positive reactions than fake news, but the opposite was true on Twitter.

 Reddit app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021.

Aliens will take over all governments in May 2023 - TikTok 'time traveler'

TikToker Aery Yormany, a modern-day Nostradamus, has made bold and outlandish predictions about the future, and an alien invasion may be among the tamer ones.

 Alien UFOs are seen attacking a city on Earth in this illustrative image.

Letters to the Editor February 1, 2023: Home that I love

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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