As news about the murders in Minneapolis broke over the weekend, misinformation began spreading on social media instantly.

And in an era of artificial intelligence and limited internal fact checking, experts say rumors and disinformation are catching fire online in entirely new ways.

Stephanie Sy says down with experts to separate facts from fiction.

It happened almost immediately. Today we are asking for the public's help in locating Vance,

Luther, Bolter. While investigators were still chasing down, the man in Minnesota accused

of killing a state lawmaker and her husband. It seems like he went after a Democratic legislator because she voted against Democrat Party policy.

Political influencers online were already claiming to know his motives.

In Washington, D.C., President Trump's military parade over the weekend was either huge or puny.

There was just no people there.

Depending on which set of images one saw.

And on the streets of Los Angeles, where most protests of ICE raids were nonviolent, you'd

never know that from the sometimes inaccurate images that went viral online.

Trying to access verifiable and accurate information on the internet at the moment is as difficult as I think it's ever been.

David Gilbert is a reporter at Wired. He's been covering misinformation for over a decade. When breaking news happens, at this point you can almost guess what some of the

disinformation narratives are going to be. For example, around the LA protests, we saw

reusing old footage, people using footage from the George Floyd protests in 2020. We saw people using footage from the

Armat Tree video game, which is a war game, so they used footage from that and claimed that it was from

LA. We saw George Soros being blamed that all the protesters were being paid, something that

Donald Trump amplified himself last week.

These are paid troublemakers. They get money.

You still have all of this, but then you're putting the AI on top of it, making it so much worse.

Hey, everyone, Bob here on National Guard duty.

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