Memeification and digital slop: AI and the fog of war - Coda Story
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Using Silicon Valley tools, Iran has waged a propaganda and misinformation campaign that is finding its mark. The U.S. has only itself to blame
Screenshot taken from the AI-generated clip titled “Narrative of Victory” Disinformation Memeification and digital slop: AI and the fog of war Using Silicon Valley tools, Iran has waged a propaganda and misinformation campaign that is finding its mark. The U.S. has only itself to blame By Nic Dawes 30 March 2026 10 June 2026 perspective A funny thing happened on the day OpenAI announced it was shutting down Sora, its video generation app: Iran went all in on synthetic propaganda and very quickly started winning the global meme war. The timing is a coincidence, no doubt, but it is the kind of c
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