By Calum Jaspan
Publication Date: 2026-04-06 19:00:00
If the Vietnam War was the first major televised conflict and the Gulf War began alongside the burgeoning cable networks, then Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s attacks on Iran land at the dawn of the AI media age.
This has strange consequences: real footage of mass graves for civilians in Iran was dismissed as fake by AI chatbots, while Instagram users were tricked into following an account supposedly belonging to a beautiful US soldier who also happened to post sexualized images of her feet.
With Iran essentially a black box for reliable journalism and Trump’s reputation with the international community and domestic voters at stake ahead of this year’s midterm elections, the stakes in the media war are high.
The widespread use of artificial intelligence in war propaganda has been expected for some time, says David Wroe, Resident Senior…
