A post circulating on Facebook shows a man named Henek, a violinist allegedly forced to play in the camp’s orchestra at Auschwitz. “His role: to play music as fellow prisoners were led to the gas chambers,” reads the caption.

But there is no Holocaust victim by the name of Henek. The image is also AI-generated.

A new BBC investigation uncovered an international network of spammers posting fabricated Holocaust images on Facebook to profit from Meta’s content-monetization program.

In recent months, images of children abandoned on train tracks or lovers meeting across concentration camp fences have appeared on Facebook, attracting clicks and shares. None of the victims or stories are real.

According to the BBC, the images originate from spam networks in Pakistan, India, Vietnam, and Niger

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