• Social media are flooded with AI-generated fake images and videos of the Holocaust, often depicting invented stories and historically inaccurate scenes.
  • The Auschwitz Museum warns that platforms like Meta do not respond to reports of fake content, leading to erosion of historical understanding and insult to victims’ memory.
  • Historians note that most fake content shows ’normally beautiful’ people, ignoring real victims such as disabled persons who were persecuted by the Nazis.
  • BBC investigation revealed networks spreading fake content for reach and profit, with some posts used to relativize Nazi crimes.
  • Experts warn that laypeople often cannot distinguish fake from real footage, hindering the fight against historical revisionism.

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