What Iranians are being told about the war

“While the use of AI-generated content in war propaganda certainly isn’t new, the use of AI forgeries by major state media outlets, even those that don’t exactly have a reputation for adhering to the truth, is striking,” says Brett Schafer, senior director of the UK-based think tank Institute of Strategic Dialogue. “Iranian state media’s repeated use of deepfakes suggests that this is a feature of their war reporting rather than a bug.”