This 'Iranian Missile Strike' is Completely Fake

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Special thanks to DeepMedia.ai for the investigation.

Three days into a war… and the AI fakes are already here.

A video is circulating online claiming to show a massive Iranian missile strike on the Haifa oil refinery in Israel. It’s dramatic. It’s loud. It’s six seconds long.

And it’s completely fake.

In this video, I break down exactly why the so-called “Haifa port attack” footage doesn’t hold up. We’ll look at the geography, the refinery layout, the gantry cranes (or lack thereof), the physics of light and sound, frozen traffic, looping footage, and why six-second clips should immediately trigger your skepticism.

I also walk through how this video spread across YouTube Shorts, Instagram, Facebook, and foreign-language broadcasts, and why that pattern matters.

With help from DeepMedia’s AI detection tools, we analyze the visual artifacts, lack of secondary angles, and environmental inconsistencies that expose this as generative AI content.

Then we talk about the bigger issue:

Was this just someone chasing internet clout?

Or was this an “information canary," which is a sensor test to see what gets past moderation filters?

AI-generated war footage is going to become more common. Not less.

So in this video, I’ll show you how to spot it before it spots you.

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