Artificial patriots: Victims of online American military scams | Behind the Investigation - Behind the Investigation with Atlanta News First

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Season 2, Episode 46 of Behind the Investigation with Atlanta News First

The Facebook pages have names like Proudly American. Its cover photo shows troops marching behind US flags. But the listed contact address in Dallas, Texas, doesn’t exist.

But digging three levels down into the Facebook’s page transparency feature uncovered the Proudly American page is managed by three users in Morocco.

Proudly American one of dozens of patriotic Facebook pages Atlanta News First Investigates found across social media that share identical AI-generated photos of American soldiers, veterans, and military babies. Those with page management information show they’re not run out of the United States.

Read the full story here: https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/09/23/artificial-patriots-foreign-scammers-use-ai-military-photos-steal-us-widows/

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