{"id":174281,"date":"2026-01-02T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/flurry-of-stars-targeted-by-ai-slop-on-facebook-over-the-holidays\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:45:11","slug":"flurry-of-stars-targeted-by-ai-slop-on-facebook-over-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/flurry-of-stars-targeted-by-ai-slop-on-facebook-over-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Flurry of stars targeted by AI slop on Facebook over the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/doc.afp.com.89BR7KE\">Flurry of stars targeted by AI slop on Facebook over the holidays<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/doc.afp.com.89BR7KE\">https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/doc.afp.com.89BR7KE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-02 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"factcheck.afp.com\">factcheck.afp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In December 2025, Facebook posts surfaced claiming Melania Trump or other celebrities secretly funded a church&#8217;s construction and decorated it alone for Christmas.<\/li>\n<li>The posts used fabricated images, and duplicates circulated with various celebrities swapped in, but no credible evidence exists that any named individual funded the church, suggesting AI generation.<\/li>\n<li>Tech experts confirmed the images likely resulted from AI, with one engineer using his company&#8217;s AI detection tool flagging them as highly probable AI creations.<\/li>\n<li>The articles shared unnatural phrasing, copy-pasted elements, and homoglyphs to evade detection as AI-generated, indicating the posts were likely &#8220;click farming&#8221; attempts.<\/li>\n<li>The Facebook pages promoting these posts receive complaints about misleading and AI-generated content, though they continue to circulate fabricated stories.<\/li>\n<li>The posts illustrate the prevalence of phony AI content on social media, designed to generate engagement and profit for those distributing it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flurry of stars targeted by AI slop on Facebook over the holidays https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/doc.afp.com.89BR7KE Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/medias\/factchecking\/g2\/2026-01\/f0c90f161d4015636231d888aa1de747-en.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174283,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174281\/revisions\/174283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}