Playing with Reality: How Iran Turned Lego into an AI Weapon

If Chris Pratt’s protagonist in 2014 Lego Movie Destined to save the world from a tyrannical capitalist, Donald Trump has become the main character in dozens of unofficial short sequels.

The inevitable sequels, produced by a series of AI studios allied with Iran, have become the defining image of the digital propaganda war in the Middle East conflict.

The cleverly produced videos cover a number of recurring and often anti-Semitic themes: the US president as an angry idiot, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the devil pulling the strings, a cover-up of Epstein files and, more generally, Iran’s alleged primacy over the United States and Israel.

Accompanied by rap music with a US accent or…