AI or real? BBC analyses viral China disaster videos

As weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and it’s causing real world problems in China.

The government has vowed to crack down on misinformation, but as our China correspondent Stephen McDonell explains, identifying AI-generated content is becoming increasingly difficult.

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