debunk

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The flood of AI-fabricated visuals -- mixed with authentic imagery from the Middle East -- continues to grow faster than professional fact-checkers can debunk them.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

The trail of damage from Patterson’s pet project includes money fights, family estrangement and bitter fallouts as friends turned on each other amid efforts to debunk or defend the footage over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

His memo was so thick with lies that it would take a week to debunk them all.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2025

“I don’t know how you’d debunk such a thing,” Smith said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer