De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, promoting seats at €1,600.
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De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, promoting seats at €1,600. Bellingcat found that the image in the interview was likely AI-generated, and flight-tracking data suggests no such plane took off.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/12/ai-used-to-promote-non-existent-evacuation-flights-from-the-middle-east/?utm_source=mastodon@Bellingcat Wow. I'm not surprised. I've seen several stories about news outlets falling for AI videos and 'stories.'
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De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, promoting seats at €1,600. Bellingcat found that the image in the interview was likely AI-generated, and flight-tracking data suggests no such plane took off.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/12/ai-used-to-promote-non-existent-evacuation-flights-from-the-middle-east/?utm_source=mastodon@Bellingcat
Those wispy hairs are a bit of an AI style to make them look more authentic. Be cynical when you see them. They often don’t relate to the rest of the haircut. -
De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, promoting seats at €1,600. Bellingcat found that the image in the interview was likely AI-generated, and flight-tracking data suggests no such plane took off.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/12/ai-used-to-promote-non-existent-evacuation-flights-from-the-middle-east/?utm_source=mastodon@Bellingcat They'll change their name to 'Telegraif' soon.
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De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, promoting seats at €1,600. Bellingcat found that the image in the interview was likely AI-generated, and flight-tracking data suggests no such plane took off.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/12/ai-used-to-promote-non-existent-evacuation-flights-from-the-middle-east/?utm_source=mastodon@Bellingcat It's pathetic what some legal adults will get up to just to try to feel better about themselves or try to burnish their image.
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@Bellingcat Wow. I'm not surprised. I've seen several stories about news outlets falling for AI videos and 'stories.'
@archivescribe This seems a little artful than many, but not very. I certainly would have not pegged that image as fake, and I doubt most other people would, either. In this case, Telegraf was relying on what they believed to be a trustworthy source, who might not be.
I'm not saying that's an excuse, but we all rely on such heuristics all the time, especially against the clock. It's just not possible to exhaustively verify every detail about everything and also get done what needs done.
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@Luuk_Aalders
Ik vrees dat je kont na het vegen met de T. eerder viezer wordt.
@Bellingcat@bmk Same jokes are told in the UK about the Daily Mail, heh. As in, "Wash after reading."
I don't know anything about De Telegraaf, but there's plenty of poor print media in the world, and we can all name examples.
For what it's worth, MBFC rates DT as 'right' bias, and 'Mostly Factual', which is middling: "In general, news reporting is poorly sourced with a strong right-leaning bias."
So, not as bad as the Daily Fail, but not a lot better, either.
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De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, promoting seats at €1,600. Bellingcat found that the image in the interview was likely AI-generated, and flight-tracking data suggests no such plane took off.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/12/ai-used-to-promote-non-existent-evacuation-flights-from-the-middle-east/?utm_source=mastodonI love you, bellingcat.
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@archivescribe This seems a little artful than many, but not very. I certainly would have not pegged that image as fake, and I doubt most other people would, either. In this case, Telegraf was relying on what they believed to be a trustworthy source, who might not be.
I'm not saying that's an excuse, but we all rely on such heuristics all the time, especially against the clock. It's just not possible to exhaustively verify every detail about everything and also get done what needs done.
@wesdym That's the danger of this stuff. I've been reading the concern in legal circles about how deepfakes, when they get to the point of being impossible to detect (even with the original file), will cancel out video/pic evidence in civil & criminal courts. We're living in the wild early years of this technology.
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De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, promoting seats at €1,600. Bellingcat found that the image in the interview was likely AI-generated, and flight-tracking data suggests no such plane took off.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/12/ai-used-to-promote-non-existent-evacuation-flights-from-the-middle-east/?utm_source=mastodonso a con artist was selling flights that didn't exist & got a ton of free promotion from the Dutch newspaper
just great, it only encourages them
this reminds me, there are fake tours being promoted on Instagram using AI, i was promoted a fake AI-gen Costa Rica tour that i could ID as fake because i had visited the region several times & know the man who took one of the photos they stole but i fear for less experienced travelers, the scams are EVERYWHERE & the platforms DGAF
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De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, promoting seats at €1,600. Bellingcat found that the image in the interview was likely AI-generated, and flight-tracking data suggests no such plane took off.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/12/ai-used-to-promote-non-existent-evacuation-flights-from-the-middle-east/?utm_source=mastodonDisasters and human misery always brings out the scammers. Such creatures might even be lower than scabs and that's saying something.
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