Deepfake case study · Image
Bashar al-Assad deepfake (Dec 2025)
An AI-generated image circulated on social media showing Bashar al-Assad in Moscow's Red Square. The image contained errors and was identified as AI-generated by a watermark and verification tools. Distorted building…
- Incident date
- Dec 2025
- Target
- Bashar al-Assad
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
An AI-generated image circulated on social media showing Bashar al-Assad in Moscow's Red Square. The image contained errors and was identified as AI-generated by a watermark and verification tools. Distorted building proportions and irregularities in Assad's features were detected.