\n As the \u2018meme war\u2019 between the US and Iran continues via AI \u2018slopaganda,\u2019 an Iran-linked group named Explosive Media has been pumping out viral LEGO-style videos ridiculing the US war effort in Iran, and trolling President Donald Trump.\u00a0Many of these videos depict Trump as childish and fickle, accuse him of having started the war to distract from his ties to Jeff Epstein, and have gained an audience of hundreds of millions online. <\/p>\n
Recently, after a LEGO-style video claimed \u201cIran won\u201d last week, YouTube banned Explosive Media\u2019s channel, suspending it for violent content and \u201cviolating its Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
It prompted a reaction from Tehran\u2019s Foreign Ministry, which accused YouTube for \u201csuppressing the truth\u201d and \u201cshielding the US administration\u2019s false narrative from any competing voice.\u201d The rest of Explosive Media\u2019s other accounts on Meta platforms, X and Tiktok appear unaffected for the moment.<\/p>\n
Since the Middle East war, Iran has really leaned into using artificial intelligence to push its side of this war to a non-Iranian audience, often using American references and satire to flood the internet.<\/p>\n
But who are the Explosive Media group? A representative for the group told the BBC the team consists of less than ten people, and admitted the Iranian government is one of their clients, despite having previously claimed to be independent.<\/p>\n
Vedika Bahl goes through Tehran’s criticism of this new YouTube suspension, and what we know of the group behind these viral AI-generated propaganda clips in this episode of Truth or Fake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the \u2018meme war\u2019 between the US and Iran continues via AI \u2018slopaganda,\u2019 an Iran-linked group named Explosive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4863,24,25,625,4861,369,1605,207,1109,4860,4862,1928],"class_list":{"0":"post-5498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-fake-news","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-explainer","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-iran-war","15":"tag-middle-east","16":"tag-social-media","17":"tag-truth-or-fake","18":"tag-white-house","19":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}