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In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes
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Smoke billowing in the sky.
Key facts
- Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War,” 404 Media declared glumly
- Over the past 15 years, Khamenei made sure sufficient money, talent, and institutional priority flowed toward digital content creation,” Narges Bajoghli writes in New York
- The regime’s posting game seemed to live rent-free in Trump’s head, with the president posting on Truth Social on Friday morning, “The Iranians are better at handling the Fake News Media, and ‘Public Relations,’ than they are at fighting — They were instead pictures of downed Black Hawks and purported strikes on Tel Aviv, propaganda much closer to posturing than humanitarian documentation
Summary
In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime’s state media was flooding the zone with video after video of what was happening on the ground: Explosions over Tehran. A Tomahawk missile landing on a school. Only weeks prior, the authoritarian regime had been struggling to shut down all footage of the protests convulsing the nation, cutting off internet access to the outside world in the longest blackout in Iranian history. Then, on February 28th, the United States and Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran, killing thousands, including civilians. Before the attacks, it looked as though some connectivity was returning to Iran, but as bombs fell, the blackout was once again in place. By mid-March, the most dominant strain of Iranian propaganda was of a markedly different tone.