By Guardian staff reporter
Publication Date: 2026-04-08 03:52:00
IIn early March, a week after the first American-Israeli attacks on Iran, the White House released a video of real American attacks mixed with clips from popular films, television series, video games and anime.
Iran and its sympathizers responded to the attacks by flooding social media with outdated war footage purporting to be from the current conflict, as well as AI-generated content showing attacks on Tel Aviv and US bases in the Persian Gulf.
In recent viral video clips reportedly created by a team of Iranians, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Satan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Pete Hegseth, Ayatollah Khamenei and others are depicted as Lego figures.
Welcome to the brave new world of slopaganda.
The rise of slopaganda
Late last year, in an article published in Filosofiska Notiser, we coined the term “slopaganda” to refer to AI-generated crap that serves propagandistic purposes.
By propaganda we mean communication aimed at manipulating beliefs, emotions, attention, memory and other cognitive and…