Seven days ago, as U.S. president Donald Trump left the G7 summit early and called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” to Israel, an anonymous TikTok account posted two pro-Iran
#propaganda videos. One showed a bay of women at computers, seemingly preparing to launch a rocket. Another showed a line of tanks bearing missiles and Iranian flags emerging from a tunnel.
In the following days, the U.S. would bomb Iranian nuclear development sites, entering yet another conflict in the Middle East. And on social media, the two videos, which appear to be AI generated, would begin to circulate — widely. According to the data analytics platform Zelf, the two videos became among the 15 most-watched TikToks about
#Iran in the past week, accumulating more than 30 million views. Then, they disappeared from the platform.
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