The Netanyahu deepfake episode is the sharpest version of a dynamic that is now general. Grok flagged a Netanyahu café video as a probable AI fabrication [2][9] while the question of whether Netanyahu had even appeared publicly was itself actively contested in the same information environment. The two facts did not clarify each other — they made the evidentiary situation worse. 'AI-generated' attached to the video as a charge before anyone established whether the charge was correct, and the charge did its work regardless. Trump's accusation against the BBC …