Multiple AI-generated images falsely claiming to show New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a child alongside his mother, renowned filmmaker Mira Nair, with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein have gone viral on social media, sparking widespread confusion and concern. The images were widely circulated on Monday (February 2, 2026), shortly after the US Justice Department released a large tranche of new files related to Epstein. Fact-checks and digital forensics experts have co