After the whistle: AI videos, false quotes and the World Cup's biggest viral fakes

AI-generated videos and fabricated quotes plagued the two thousand twenty-six World Cup, per Euronews, spreading alongside the tournament's biggest matches. Among them: deepfake clips of Norwegian striker Erling Haaland and doctored images falsely alleging Argentina had rigged the competition.

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