When Seeing Isn’t Believing: AI Images, Breaking News and the New Misinformation Playbook

This piece explains how AI-generated visuals flooded social media during alleged U.S.-Venezuela events, blending fabricated and real footage to create confusion and exploit classic social engineering triggers like urgency, authority, and incomplete information. It underscores the limits of current detection methods and urges organizations and individuals to adopt verification habits and security awareness training, treating visual media with the same skepticism applied to phishing.