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There is no KBSF-TV in San Francisco and, according to a… BBC Verify investigationThe original website that published the story was registered less than two weeks ago. The photograph attached to the article, which purportedly showed the accident itself, was actually taken in Guam in 2018. And the video of Brown, whom the article and video incorrectly name several times, also appears to be a deepfake. X-ray images of Brown’s spine, purportedly taken after the accident, can be layout return to medical journals that are not related to the alleged accident.

Interestingly, it’s not the only recent case of a blatantly fabricated story taking root against Democrats. Behind the operation is John Mark Dougan, a former Florida police officer who has since moved to Moscow to work full-time inventing fake news sites in an effort to spread misinformation among American voters ahead of the 2024 election, according to the BBC.

Another site created by Dougan, The Houston Post, accused the FBI of illegally eavesdropping on Donald Trump’s Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago. Other sites had similarly American names, such as Chicago Crier, Boston Times and DC Weekly. According to the BBC, most of the stories published on the sites were not necessarily fake, but rather poor copies of real news stories that had been reworked by artificial intelligence engines. Some of the articles still displayed the user’s instructions to the robot at the end of the text, at the time of the BBC investigation: “Please rewrite this article taking a conservative stance.”