Social media users have grown better at spotting obvious signs of AI doctoring in celebrity photos or glitchy cityscapes. But in the US‑Israel war with Iran , a new type of deception has entered the spotlight: fake satellite imagery .  "For satellite images, we can safely say that the majority of people have very limited familiarity," Symeon Papadopoulos, an AI researcher specializing in media verification at Greek research institute CERTH, told DW. "That makes them particularly prone to being