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How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
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Lego-style propaganda videos alleging war crimes are flooding online feeds, echoing the White House’s own turn toward cryptic teaser clips and meme-native visuals.
Key facts
- Automated traffic now commands an estimated 51 percent of internet activity, scaling eight times faster than human traffic according to the 2026 State of AI Traffic & Cyberthreat Benchmark Report
- One Iran-linked outlet, Explosive News, can reportedly turn around a two-minute synthetic Lego segment in about 24 hours
- Tools like Imagen 3, Midjourney, and Dall
- E have improved in prompt understanding, photorealism, and text-in-image rendering
- We’re perpetually catching up to someone pressing repost without a second thought,” says Maryam Ishani, an OSINT journalist covering the conflict
Summary
One Iran-linked outlet, Explosive News, can reportedly turn around a two-minute synthetic Lego segment in about 24 hours. Last month, the White House added to that confusion when it posted two vague “launching soon” videos, then removed them after online investigators and open source researchers began dissecting them. The reveal turned out to be anticlimactic: a promotional push for the official White House app. A zero digital footprint used to signal authenticity. The absence of a trail no longer means something is original—it may mean it was never captured by a lens at all.