in one widely shared example, a clip claiming to show a US warship shooting down an Iranian aircraft was later identified as footage from the video game War Thunder

Shyam Bhati

WITHIN hours of the first exchanges of strikes between Iran and Israel, dramatic videos began circulating online, claiming to show fighter jets shot down and cities reduced to rubble. Several were quickly exposed as fiction. Some clips have turned out to be images from video games. Others appear to have been

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