alt Hacker NewsIn the AI propaganda war, Iran is winning
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keybored • yesterday at 11:22 PM
Iran managed to spin an illegal invasion and killing a school full of girls against the opponent. Lead by the most clownish head of state in living memory. An amazing, deftly feat. Fill out with some hundreds of words and a mandatory word count about Theocratic, Murderous, Regime, Dictatorship, Propaganda, and you have your standard IR piece.
Maybe they watched Team America.
cooldk • yesterday at 7:31 PM
Yes, human consensus is fundamentally driven by herd mentality
I think what many people don't realize is that the target of this propaganda isn't the Iranian people, but American's and the west.
This isn't difficult to do with someone like Trump in power. They aren't shouting "Death to America" because they don't have to. They can easily position Trump as an enemy of the people, just as American's have done to the Ayatollah in the past.
In the West, I have always felt, we were in support of the Iranian people, but not the leadership which barely represented them. Now in the US, you have a similar dichotomy.
I don't think anyone in the west is hoping for a stronger Iran, but we're also not wishing for a stronger America.
Note: I'm Canadian, but have lived in the US and have much of my family in the US