US EditionPro-Iran Explosive Media Trolls Trump with AI-Generated Lego Cartoons
Explosive Media’s clips have drawn millions of views as experts say Iran is using cheap AI content to spread wartime propaganda.
- Following the two-week ceasefire announced on Tuesday, an Iranian Lego-style animation team named Explosive Media released videos mocking Trump, depicting him as isolated and prone to tantrums.
- Joseph Bodnar of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue told AFP that 'Iran has crafted a wartime propaganda strategy tailored for the age of AI slop and algorithmic amplification.'
- One video depicts a Trump-like toy figure hurling a chair at American military figures, while Iranian generals press a button labeled 'Back to the Stone Age' unleashing destruction.
- The White House has posted its own war-themed content combining battlefield footage with clips from Iron Man, Gladiator and Top Gun, blurring propaganda and entertainment into a meme battlefield.
- Explosive Media rejected suspicion of government ties as a 'media distortion' despite an internet blackout, while Nina Jankowicz of the American Sunlight Project said the group is 'beating the Trump administration at its own game.
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Pro-Iran Explosive Media trolls Trump with AI-generated Lego cartoons
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