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On one occasion, the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti shared an AI-generated image of Florida's Disney World being supposedly destroyed by Hurricane Milton, which quickly went viral on Elon Musk’s social media platform X. Some of the conspiracy theories claimed the hurricanes had been created by Jews to help Vice President Kamala Harris win the upcoming election.

On one occasion, a Russian state-owned news agency known as RIA Novosti shared an AI-generated image of Florida's Disney World being supposedly destroyed by Hurricane Milton, which quickly went viral.

A helicopter search had found no trace of the trio after their disappearance was reported, according to Ria.

Nikolai Sukhanov, told Ria Novosti in such a situation you can survive by catching fish while eking out whatever provisions are left on the boat.

It is not the first time that castaways have been found after many days adrift - an expert told the Ria Novosti four Soviet soldiers had survived 49 days adrift on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean in 1960, before being picked up by a US aircraft carrier.