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Amid Chaos in Mexico, False Photographs Stoked Fears


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Amid Chaos in Mexico, False Photographs Stoked Fears

On-line disinformation proliferated quickly after the Mexican navy killed the nation’s high cartel chief, fueling worry and chaos amongst residents and vacationers alike. Mexican officers say some A.I.-generated pictures and pretend information studies might have been linked to prison actors.

“There have been pictures and movies that weren’t actual. Folks began posting that the gangs have been simply taking pictures randomly and killing folks on the town. That wasn’t true.” “I noticed that there have been A.I. pictures of a church downtown being burned. And that basically created panic for these of us that dwell right here.” “There’s no official, like, information report. The authorities have not likely stated a lot. We’re all simply sort of at the hours of darkness.” “Get inside the home.” “I’ve owned a drone for a number of years for content material creation functions. It actually grew to become my eyes to have the ability to know what was taking place on the bottom. It seemed like all of Costco was on fireplace. However in actuality, I took the drone out and I may see that it was simply autos within the parking zone.” “There was a younger man operating at us with a gun, got here round and pointed by means of the window at my head, and was screaming in Spanish, ‘Get out of the automotive. Get out of the automotive.’ He threw an incendiary gadget, a bomb or one thing within the automotive, which rapidly exploded in flames. After which he did the identical to the truck that was there.”

On-line disinformation proliferated quickly after the Mexican navy killed the nation’s high cartel chief, fueling worry and chaos amongst residents and vacationers alike. Mexican officers say some A.I.-generated pictures and pretend information studies might have been linked to prison actors.

By Brent McDonald, Arijeta Lajka, Mark Boyer, Shawn Paik and Axel Boada

February 24, 2026

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