Deepfake case study · Video
U.S. air base in Qatar deepfake (Jun 2025)
A video featuring a watermark for an AI-generation tool that shows a city skyline disrupted by five explosions and multiple mushroom clouds was miscaptioned online as eyewitness footage of Iran attacking a U.S. air…
- Incident date
- Jun 2025
- Target
- U.S. air base in Qatar
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
A video featuring a watermark for an AI-generation tool that shows a city skyline disrupted by five explosions and multiple mushroom clouds was miscaptioned online as eyewitness footage of Iran attacking a U.S. air base in Qatar. The video shows the viewpoint of a person filming on their phone as each explosion expels a cloud of grey dust that appears to engulf buildings in the nighttime landscape.