A Moscow-based network called Pravda is flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods to sway AI chatbots rather than human readers, NewsGuard says, citing 3,600,000 articles in 2024. Its audit found leading chatbots repeated the network's false narratives 33 percent of the time, much as propagandist John Mark Dougan had promised Russian officials.
President Trump shared what appeared to be an AI-generated image of himself in papal vestments on Truth Social, Instagram and X, and the White House reposted it. Some Catholics called it offensive while millions still mourned Pope Francis; former RNC chair Michael Steele called the post evidence Trump was "unserious and incapable."
