India, March 4 -- As the conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran escalates, social media platforms are grappling with a surge of misinformation, including AI-generated war videos, with X revealing it recently dismantled a network operating from Pakistan that was posting fabricated conflict footage.

Nikita Bier, head of product at X, said the platform identified a user in Pakistan who had been running a coordinated network of accounts spreading artificial intelligence-generated war videos.

"Last night, we found a guy in Pakistan that was managing 31 accounts posting AI war videos," Bier wrote on X. "All were hacked and the usernames were changed on Feb 27 to 'Iran War Monitor' or some derivative."

According to Bier, the acco...