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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 prime cartel chief, fueling worry and chaos amongst residents and vacationers alike. Mexican officers say some A.I.-generated photographs and pretend information stories could have been linked to legal actors.
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“There have been photographs and movies that weren’t actual. Individuals 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. photographs of a church downtown being burned. And that actually created panic for these of us that dwell right here.” “There’s no official, like, information report. The authorities have not likely mentioned a lot. We’re all simply type of at nighttime.” “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 occurring on the bottom. It appeared like all of Costco was on hearth. 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 via the window at my head, and was screaming in Spanish, ‘Get out of the automobile. Get out of the automobile.’ He threw an incendiary gadget, a bomb or one thing within the automobile, which rapidly exploded in flames. After which he did the identical to the truck that was there.”

By Brent McDonald, Arijeta Lajka, Mark Boyer, Shawn Paik and Axel Boada
February 24, 2026
