内容来源：https://www.wired.com/story/disinformation-floods-social-media-after-nicolas-maduros-capture/

内容总结：

当地时间周六凌晨，美国前总统特朗普在社交媒体单方面宣称，美军已抓获委内瑞拉总统马杜罗及其夫人。消息传出后，大量虚假信息迅速在社交平台蔓延。

部分用户在各平台传播过往视频，谎称其展示了美军对委首都加拉加斯的袭击。在TikTok、Instagram和X等平台，多张声称显示美国缉毒局人员逮捕马杜罗的AI生成图片及视频被广泛传播。经《连线》杂志通过谷歌SynthID技术检测，其中一张广为流传的所谓“逮捕现场图”被证实系伪造。谷歌AI聊天机器人Gemini分析指出，该图像“大部分或全部内容由谷歌AI生成或编辑”。

虚假信息传播现象在近年屡见不鲜。自2023年10月巴以冲突爆发至去年夏季美军袭击伊朗核设施等重大事件期间，社交平台均出现大量挪用历史影像冒充即时现场的画面。此次亦有账号将2024年拍摄的民众拆除马杜罗海报视频，以及2025年11月发布的旧视频，包装为所谓“美军行动现场”进行传播，其中一条视频在X平台的观看量已超200万次。

目前，X、Meta和TikTok等平台尚未就相关内容审核机制作出回应。随着人工智能技术降低造假门槛，如何在重大事件中遏制虚假信息传播，已成为全球社交平台面临的共同挑战。

中文翻译：

周六凌晨，唐纳德·特朗普宣布美军已抓获委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗及其妻子西莉亚·弗洛雷斯。消息发布几分钟内，关于此次行动的虚假信息便席卷了社交媒体。

一些人在各社交平台分享旧视频，谎称其内容为对委内瑞拉首都加拉加斯的袭击。在TikTok、Instagram和X平台上，人们传播着声称显示美国缉毒局探员及各执法部门逮捕马杜罗的AI生成图片与视频。

近年来，随着科技公司放松对平台内容的审核力度，全球重大事件屡屡在社交媒体上引发海量虚假信息。许多账号试图利用宽松的规则提升互动量、吸引关注者。

特朗普于周六凌晨在Truth Social发帖称："美利坚合众国已成功对委内瑞拉及其领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗总统实施大规模打击，马杜罗与其妻子已被抓获并押离该国。"

数小时后，美国司法部长帕姆·邦迪宣布马杜罗夫妇在纽约南区法院被起诉，指控罪名包括毒品恐怖主义阴谋、可卡因进口阴谋、持有机枪及破坏性装置，以及共谋持有机枪与破坏性装置。邦迪在X平台写道："他们很快将在美国领土的美国法庭上，承受美国司法的全部威严。"

马杜罗被捕消息传出几分钟内，一张声称显示两名缉毒局探员押解委内瑞拉总统的图片在多个平台广泛传播。然而，《连线》杂志通过谷歌DeepMind研发的SynthID技术（该技术宣称可识别AI生成图像）确认该图片很可能系伪造。

谷歌Gemini聊天机器人在分析网络流传的该图片后表示："根据分析，该图像大部分或全部内容由谷歌AI生成或编辑。我检测到SynthID数字水印，这是谷歌AI工具在创作或编辑过程中嵌入的隐形数字信号。该技术设计确保即使图像经过裁剪或压缩等修改，水印仍可被识别。"这张伪造图片最初由事实核查员戴维·普恩特曝光。

当多位X平台用户询问时，该平台的AI聊天机器人Grok虽确认图片系伪造，却错误声称该图片改编自2017年墨西哥毒枭达马索·洛佩斯·努涅斯被捕的画面。《连线》杂志早前报道称，周六上午就此事询问ChatGPT时，该模型坚决否认马杜罗被捕的消息。

除疑似伪造的图片外，有人利用AI工具基于该图片生成所谓"马杜罗被捕"的视频。在TikTok上，多个明显由AI生成的视频在马杜罗被捕消息传出数小时内获得数十万次观看。其中不少视频似乎基于数字创作者鲁本·达里奥发布在Instagram的AI生成图片（该帖获超1.2万次浏览），类似视频也出现在X平台。

X、Meta和TikTok均未回应置评请求。

如同2023年10月巴以冲突爆发、去年夏季美国轰炸伊朗核设施等全球重大事件后的惯常现象，许多虚假信息传播者分享旧画面，却声称其拍摄于周六的加拉加斯。

强烈支持特朗普的网络红人劳拉·卢默等人分享了显示马杜罗海报被撤下的视频，她在X平台写道："继今晨美军特种部队抓获马杜罗后，委内瑞拉人民正在撕毁马杜罗海报，涌上街头庆祝特朗普政府实施的逮捕行动。"该视频实际摄于2024年。卢默最终删除了这条帖子。

另一段声称显示美军袭击加拉加斯的视频由名为"国防情报"的账号在特朗普宣布抓获马杜罗后不久发布，在X平台获得超200万次观看。该视频实际于2025年11月首次出现在TikTok。

截至发稿时，该帖文仍在X平台存留。

英文来源：

Within minutes of Donald Trump announcing in the early hours of Saturday morning that US troops had captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, disinformation about the operation flooded social media.
Some people shared old videos across social platforms, falsely claiming that they showed the attacks on the Venezuelan capital Caracas. On TikTok, Instagram, and X, people shared AI-generated images and videos that claimed to show US Drug Enforcement Administration agents and various law enforcement personnel arresting Maduro.
In recent years, major global incidents have triggered huge amounts of disinformation on social media as tech companies have pulled back efforts to moderate their platforms. Many accounts have sought to take advantage of these lax rules to boost engagement and gain followers.
“The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Hours later, US attorney general Pam Bondi announced that Maduro and his wife had been indicted in the Southern District of New York and charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” Bondi wrote on X.
Within minutes of the news of Maduro’s arrest breaking, an image claiming to show two DEA agents flanking the Venezuelan president spread widely on multiple platforms.
However, using SynthID, a technology developed by Google DeepMind that claims to identify AI-generated images, WIRED was able to confirm it was likely fake.
“Based on my analysis, most or all of this image was generated or edited using Google AI,” Google’s Gemini chatbot wrote after anaylzing the image being shared online. “I detected a SynthID watermark, which is an invisible digital signal embedded by Google's AI tools during the creation or editing process. This technology is designed to remain detectable even when images are modified, such as through cropping or compression.” The fake image was first reported by fact-checker David Puente.
While X’s AI chatbot Grok also confirmed that the image was fake when asked by several X users, it falsely claimed that the image was an altered version of the arrest of Mexican drug boss Dámaso López Núñez in 2017.
WIRED earlier reported that ChatGPT strongly denied that Maduro had even been captured when asked about the event on Saturday morning.
As well as the likely fake image, some people have used AI tools to create videos from the image that purport to show Maduro’s arrest. On TikTok, multiple examples of these apparently AI-generated videos racked up hundreds of thousands of views within hours of Maduro’s capture. A number of the TikTok videos appear to be based on AI-generated images originally posted on Instagram by a digital creator named Ruben Dario and viewed over 12,000 times. Similar videos have appeared on X as well.
X, Meta, and TikTok did not respond to requests for comment.
As has become routine in the wake of any major global incident, such as the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023 or the US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites last summer, many disinformation spreaders shared old footage while claiming it was taken in Caracas on Saturday.
Emphatically pro-Trump influencer Laura Loomer was among dozens who shared footage showing a poster of Maduro being taken down, writing on X: “Following the capture of Maduro by US Special Forces earlier this morning, the people of Venezuela are ripping down posters of Maduro and taking to the streets to celebrate his arrest by the Trump administration.” The footage was originally taken in 2024. Loomer eventually removed the post.
Another video claiming to show footage of the US assault on Caracas was posted by an account called “Defense Intelligence” shortly after Trump announced Maduro’s capture, and has been viewed on X over 2 million times. The footage in question was originally posted on TikTok in November 2025.
At the time of publication, the post remains on X.