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The fall­out from a US drone strike that de­stroyed a ves­sel off Venezuela’s coast has deep­ened, as con­flict­ing nar­ra­tives con­tin­ue to emerge be­tween of­fi­cial gov­ern­ment state­ments and re­ports from in­de­pen­dent me­dia in that coun­try.

On one side, Venezue­lan of­fi­cials have dis­missed the wide­ly cir­cu­lat­ed footage of the at­tack, shared by US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, as an AI-gen­er­at­ed fab­ri­ca­tion.

In­te­ri­or Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo told state broad­cast­er VTV the footage ap­peared to be AI-gen­er­at­ed and was be­ing used by Wash­ing­ton to ma­nip­u­late pub­lic opin­ion.