{"id":9449,"date":"2026-03-30T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9449"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:59:06","slug":"lego-iran-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/03\/30\/lego-iran-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Iran Propaganda (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:2w45zyhuklwihpdc7oj3mi63\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mi4gpw4fvl2x\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreieyz4hi5ymv3mpnheifj6ebhcmycgfycaetoykkryu2ko7rwhekre\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">AI Iran Propaganda Videos Flood Social Media Scoring Millions Of Views With No Social Media Bans<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:2w45zyhuklwihpdc7oj3mi63\/post\/3mi4gpw4fvl2x?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Forbes (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:2w45zyhuklwihpdc7oj3mi63?ref_src=embed\">@forbes.com<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:2w45zyhuklwihpdc7oj3mi63\/post\/3mi4gpw4fvl2x?ref_src=embed\">28 March 2026 at 10:35<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mhv4tpcwzs2a\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreibopkgtivoorsd5ij2r7yrym6bagp2h75dwagwhele4eiyjxl7eeq\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">My research on digital issues takes me to unexpected places, including &#8211; most recently &#8211; the emergence of several LEGO #Iran propaganda videos. I won&#x27;t post individual videos here, but there&#x27;s a First Post America report here on related themes from a couple of weeks ago.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mhv4tpcwzs2a?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mhv4tpcwzs2a?ref_src=embed\">25 March 2026 at 12:49<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/iran-drops-ai-rap-video-showing-donald-trump-s-death-rip\/\">Daily Express\/MSN, Iran drops AI rap video showing Donald Trump&#8217;s death: &#8216;RIP&#8217;<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/Tkn6PBMwz2I\">Kian Sharifi, Radio Free Europe, How Iran Turned Lego And Anime Into Weapons<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lego-style, anime aesthetics, AI, AC\/DC, Top Gun: modern information warfare during the US-Iran war is a mixed bag. <br><br>By <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KianSharifi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KianSharifi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xVAjkPt3t4\">pic.twitter.com\/xVAjkPt3t4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (@RFERL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RFERL\/status\/2036745099636338765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Iran Propaganda Videos Flood Social Media Scoring Millions Of Views With No Social Media Bans [image or embed] &mdash; Forbes (@forbes.com) 28 March 2026 at 10:35 My research on digital issues takes me to unexpected places, including &#8211; most recently &#8211; the emergence of several LEGO #Iran propaganda videos. I won&#x27;t post individual videos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,286,536,5],"tags":[85,201,177],"class_list":["post-9449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-iran","category-iran-internet","category-research","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-iran","tag-iranian-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9449"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9487,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions\/9487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}