March 31, 2026
Beware, They Are Among Us Spreading Iranian AI Generated Propaganda As Artificial Intelligence Is Used Widely By Iran Targeting Patriotic Americans
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Let's begin with a few questions.
How would you know if the person you are speaking to online is an Iranian operative, or if a meme you are sharing came from an Iranian cyber warfare campaign? How would you know if information you are sharing, or even just basing your own opinion on came from an Iranian cyber unit?
Better yet, maybe the more important question would be, "Would you know at all"?
Before getting into the reports and documented data regarding the conflict between the U.S., Israel and Iran, in 2026, let's offer a quick reminder from 2024, showing this isn't a brand new problem, but something that has been ongoing for years.
Flashback, September 2024: "Iran’s AI-driven Social Media Botnets Target US Voters."
Key Attack Insights:
1. As part of its foreign policy, Iran attempts to manipulate public opinion through automated bots that spread misinformation by pretending to be real social media influencers.
2. As U.S. elections approach, these influence operations are expanding from targeting Israelis to focusing on Americans (see Figure 1).
3. Iranian actors are leveraging advanced AI technologies to generate convincing content, including deep fake videos and multilingual posts, significantly increasing the scale and sophistication of their campaigns.
4. The operations employ a cross-platform strategy, establishing presence across multiple social media services to increase credibility and reach, making containment and detection more challenging.
5. Iranian bot operators employ sophisticated TTPs, including the use of proxy IPs, AI-generated content and profiles, cross-platform coordination, and exploitation of current events, making their operations increasingly difficult to detect and counter.
According to Politifact, which of course needed to be confirmed and verified since that group has often put out their own disinformation, or rather "misleading" fact-checks, Iran's influence operation capabilities go back to 2010.
The point here is this information isn't just new, it has been an ongoing disinformation campaign from Iran, on a variety of topics, for over a decade. Adjusting the narrative for current events over the years, they use the same formula, and taking full advantage of new technological advances in AI to spread their misinformation to a far wider audience as the years go on.
At this point there is no doubt that many countries utilize some of the same tactics, and Iran is not alone in using technology to spread certain narratives, which is why double checking, and triple checking information is critical for each and every one of us to do.
Personally it is the information out there that does fit my own biases that I not only triple check, but often quadruple check, or more, just so I won't be taken in by disinformation. When I see something on social media that I also believe, I tend to trust it even less than seeing information that doesn't match my own thinking.
That comes with being a writer that has followed the white rabbit down the hole a time or two just to learn that a great story, was really a hoax, and having to scrap weeks worth of work.
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BEWARE, THEY ARE AMONG US.....
Now we'll jump forward to Iran's current online cyber information campaigns, reported by multiple sources, and in many cases debunked by the people on the ground, and in the know.
Some source links from March 2026, from a variety of sources:
How Iran spreads fake news with AI using ‘British’ social media accounts - The propaganda accounts have moved from promoting Scottish nationalism to misleading war content, including destroyed US bases and Netanyahu’s ‘death’
A network of Iranian-controlled accounts on social media claiming to be British or Irish has been posting pro-Tehran propaganda and fake AI-generated news, experts have found.
A total of 34 accounts on X, Instagram and Bluesky with fake personas purporting to be based in London, Glasgow and Dublin are actually controlled from Iran.
The network is part of a wider disinformation campaign being waged by Tehran across social networks using AI tools to spread fake news. It was uncovered by researchers at Clemson University’s Media Forensic Hub.
Iran targets US public opinion with online information war -
The Iranian regime has been running an online influence campaign using AI-generated photographs, videos and memes to sow confusion about the war in the Middle East. Experts say the main goal is to ramp up anti-war sentiment in the US and pressure President Trump to end the conflict
Some key points from France24, which highlights specific tactics.
• Among the most widely viewed content are AI-generated videos mocking Trump – styled to reference Western media including the LEGO movies and the Teletubbies – and AI videos and photographs claiming to show the devastation Iranian strikes have wrought on Israel and the Gulf states.
• “The propaganda includes memes and cartoons that aren't meant to be perceived as real but are very good at spreading political messaging,” said Darren Linvill, author of the study and co-director of Clemson’s Media Forensics Hub.
• “The deepfakes portray a version of reality that [seems] genuine and often paint Iran as more successful in the conflict. Both are being shared widely among communities that are critical of the war and hungry for this messaging.”
• The accounts analysed in the Clemson study had been used previously for Iranian influence operations “designed to exploit regional fault lines to advance Iranian regime interests” in the West by posting “politically divisive” content such as critiques of the recent US immigration crackdown.
In a Blavity piece, the "experts" and yes, I used quotes there because even the experts have their own biases, but I found multiple sources confirming it, this is the first major conflict that "AI content has been used in war efforts over information."
Iran has posted AI-generated videos, memes and out-of-context footage in its war of information. One example is a Lego-inspired video showing Iranian soldiers fighting against Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. It depicts Trump gambling in its war efforts, lying to the U.S. population, and being followed by various representations of the Epstein files.
@theroguednc A new Lego-inspired video has been released by Explosive News Team in Iran.
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“This conflict is the first time we’ve really seen AI-generated content be used very intentionally to sow chaos and confusion around what’s actually happening on the ground,” Melanie Smith, an expert in information operations at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told France 24.
What is also new in this war of information is that Iran’s war of information targets Americans.
“They are not used to seeing the messages of a country that the U.S. government is bombing that are directed toward them. This is quite new,” Emerson Brooking, the director of strategy at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, told NPR.
Those experts say Iran is using such methods because AI videos “travel fast and plug into emotions that people already have."
An America First Approach To Target Iran’s Digital Battlefield
The Iranian regime is scoring asymmetrical victories in the information war, due in large part to this social media activity. internet access is heavily restricted for ordinary Iranian citizens, but regime officials, who are allowed access and have millions of online followers in the U.S. and worldwide, provide a steady supply of fake news to an audience eager for their anti-U.S., anti-Israel, and anti-West messaging. They are only part of a vast ecosystem of English-language accounts operated by or affiliated with Iranian state media, the IRGC, the Basij militia, and the country's religious establishment.
Other links to look at are below, just to confirm and verify for yourselves, because double and triple checking information isn't just meant for social media posts, or MSM articles, but everything should be checked, even when you trust the source.
How misinformation and AI deepfakes on social media are reshaping the Iran war
Iran Releases AI Video Showing Statue of Liberty Under Attack After Rejecting Trump Deal [WATCH]
How AI Is Reshaping the Future of Warfare: Lessons From West Asia Conflict
EXPOSED: Iran Deploys AI-Powered PROPAGANDA Machine to Target American Patriots
How AI-Powered Propaganda Is Shaping The U.S.-Iran Information War
BOTTOM LINE........
I ask again, with all the information out there showing what Iran is doing, and how they are targeting patriotic Americans (not just gullible liberals and Democrats) would you even know if you were spreading Iranian AI generated propaganda, geared to sow chaos and division among Americans?
Verify everything. Confirm anything seen on social media by double or triple checking it, and don't just share it because it matches your own preferred narrative.
If you don't, YOU could be the one among us spreading Iranian fake news.
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