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",[72,100,101],{},"Fresno State"," and the ",[72,104,105],{},"California State University"," system anchor a workforce-readiness push, while local ",[72,108,109],{},"Fresno Unified School District"," debates around responsible use have made the city a recurring reference point in California's K-12 AI conversation. The city's economic base in agriculture, healthcare, and public services means most AI adoption stories here are about applied uses rather than model development — a different posture than coastal tech hubs but arguably more consequential for the people living here.",[68,112,113],{},"Use the articles below to follow how AI is showing up in Fresno-area institutions and businesses.",{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":115},[116],{"id":94,"depth":11,"text":95},"Fresno County","Fresno is the largest city in California's Central Valley and the regional center for AI adoption across agriculture, healthcare, higher education, and small business. Coverage on this page tracks how AI is being applied — and contested — in and around the city of Fresno and Fresno County.",{},"\u002Fcities\u002Ffresno",{"title":89,"description":10},"cities\u002Ffresno","fresno","gOL2xk8y9t9OV6PPxP02OjYhZFHC_Cg-VGijh_V93dI",{"id":126,"title":127,"body":128,"county":148,"description":10,"extension":13,"intro":149,"meta":150,"navigation":27,"path":151,"seo":152,"stem":153,"tag":154,"__hash__":155},"cities\u002Fcities\u002Fmerced.md","Merced",{"type":7,"value":129,"toc":145},[130,134],[63,131,133],{"id":132},"ai-in-merced","AI in Merced",[68,135,136,137,140,141,144],{},"Merced is a research-heavy node in the Central Valley AI ecosystem. ",[72,138,139],{},"UC Merced"," faculty appear in national conversations about AI safety, autonomous vehicles, climate modeling, and pediatric health applications, while the ",[72,142,143],{},"Merced Unified School District"," and surrounding county institutions navigate the same K-12 and workforce questions the rest of the Valley faces. The articles below cover both the campus research story and the broader applied uses around the city and county.",{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":146},[147],{"id":132,"depth":11,"text":133},"Merced County","Merced punches above its weight in AI research, anchored by UC Merced — a leading West Coast hub for AI in agriculture, climate, autonomous systems, and health. Coverage on this page tracks both academic research coming out of the campus and how AI is showing up across Merced's schools, businesses, and county institutions.",{},"\u002Fcities\u002Fmerced",{"title":127,"description":10},"cities\u002Fmerced","merced","pSWWlEzMdcv2_RZrUKdkEHU3bixNboePGdHbSdd1m34",{"id":157,"title":158,"body":159,"county":175,"description":10,"extension":13,"intro":176,"meta":177,"navigation":27,"path":178,"seo":179,"stem":180,"tag":181,"__hash__":182},"cities\u002Fcities\u002Fmodesto.md","Modesto",{"type":7,"value":160,"toc":172},[161,165],[63,162,164],{"id":163},"ai-in-modesto","AI in Modesto",[68,166,167,168,171],{},"Modesto's AI conversation tends to combine ag-tech adoption stories with workforce-readiness questions for the city's small and mid-sized employers. ",[72,169,170],{},"CSU Stanislaus"," and the regional community college network shape the higher-ed angle. Coverage below follows Modesto-area AI announcements and the wider Stanislaus County context.",{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":173},[174],{"id":163,"depth":11,"text":164},"Stanislaus County","Modesto and Stanislaus County sit between the Bay Area and the southern Valley, and their AI story reflects that bridging role — from agriculture and food processing to the **California State University Stanislaus** community to small businesses adapting to AI-driven changes in marketing, hiring, and operations.",{},"\u002Fcities\u002Fmodesto",{"title":158,"description":10},"cities\u002Fmodesto","modesto","l75Dc40MX8wTb4lD088Yx9we4ypuDwmcvE-uEdqqREc",{"id":184,"title":185,"body":186,"county":202,"description":10,"extension":13,"intro":203,"meta":204,"navigation":27,"path":205,"seo":206,"stem":207,"tag":208,"__hash__":209},"cities\u002Fcities\u002Fstockton.md","Stockton",{"type":7,"value":187,"toc":199},[188,192],[63,189,191],{"id":190},"ai-in-stockton","AI in Stockton",[68,193,194,195,198],{},"Stockton's economic base in logistics, healthcare, and higher education gives the city a different AI profile than the southern Valley. ",[72,196,197],{},"University of the Pacific"," anchors the academic conversation, while San Joaquin County government, hospitals, and warehouse operators are navigating practical adoption questions: cost, training, security, workforce impact. The articles below track Stockton-area AI announcements and the broader San Joaquin County context.",{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":200},[201],{"id":190,"depth":11,"text":191},"San Joaquin County","Stockton and San Joaquin County sit at the northern edge of the Central Valley, where logistics, healthcare, and the University of the Pacific shape the local AI adoption story. 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Coverage on this page tracks how AI is being adopted across Tulare County's schools, hospitals, ag operations, and small business community.",{},"\u002Fcities\u002Fvisalia",{"title":212,"description":10},"cities\u002Fvisalia","visalia","gN4g7aAl-cqD4FfSTgtTAarltUoKLh8NFlPzCbZngqU",{"id":238,"title":239,"archived":240,"author":241,"body":242,"date":484,"dateModified":484,"description":485,"extension":13,"meta":486,"navigation":27,"path":487,"rawbody":488,"seo":489,"sitemap":490,"stem":491,"tags":492,"__hash__":496},"news\u002Fnews\u002Firans-slopaganda-team-uses-ai-and-lego-style-videos-to-flood-social-media.md","Iran’s ‘Slopaganda’ Team Uses AI and Lego-Style Videos to Flood Social Media",false,"CVAI Newsdesk",{"type":7,"value":243,"toc":473},[244,248,252,275,282,286,309,312,316,323,326,332,339,343,350,360,363,367,378,381,384,388,395,398,402,413,428,432,439,442,445,460,463,467],[245,246,239],"h1",{"id":247},"irans-slopaganda-team-uses-ai-and-lego-style-videos-to-flood-social-media",[63,249,251],{"id":250},"a-new-kind-of-information-war","A New Kind of Information War",[68,253,254,255,258,259,262,263,266,267,270,271,274],{},"A small Iranian media outfit has emerged as a vivid example of how ",[72,256,257],{},"generative AI"," is reshaping propaganda. Using ",[72,260,261],{},"Lego-style animation, synthetic voices, music, and rapid-response editing",", the team has produced short videos that spread quickly across ",[72,264,265],{},"X, Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, and other platforms",", often mocking ",[72,268,269],{},"Donald Trump",", ",[72,272,273],{},"Benjamin Netanyahu",", and the U.S.-Israeli war effort while presenting Iran as the aggrieved underdog.",[68,276,277,278,281],{},"The videos are part of what observers now call ",[72,279,280],{},"“slopaganda”",": low-cost, highly shareable AI content built less around polish or factual rigor than around emotional punch, speed, and algorithmic reach. What makes the campaign stand out is not only the volume of output, but the way it packages war messaging in a form that feels playful, familiar, and instantly legible to online audiences.",[63,283,285],{"id":284},"the-team-behind-the-videos","The Team Behind the Videos",[68,287,288,289,292,293,296,297,300,301,304,305,308],{},"The group most often associated with the campaign is known as ",[72,290,291],{},"Explosive Media",", sometimes referred to as ",[72,294,295],{},"Explosive News"," or ",[72,298,299],{},"Akhbar Enfejari",". It has described itself as a small, independent, youth-driven team, but reporting across multiple outlets has pointed to a more complicated picture. While the operators have at times framed themselves as separate from the Iranian state, they have also acknowledged that ",[72,302,303],{},"Tehran has been a client",", and their material has been amplified by ",[72,306,307],{},"Iranian state-linked and diplomatic accounts",".",[68,310,311],{},"That matters because the campaign does not look like old-fashioned state television propaganda. Instead, it borrows the visual grammar of internet culture: short runtimes, catchy music, blunt symbolism, recurring characters, and references pulled from social media arguments, conspiracy discourse, and pop culture. The result is propaganda that behaves like content native to the feed rather than an official government message.",[63,313,315],{"id":314},"why-the-lego-style-works","Why the Lego Style Works",[68,317,318,319,322],{},"The use of ",[72,320,321],{},"Lego-inspired aesthetics"," is central to the campaign’s success. The imagery is instantly recognizable, childlike, and easy to process, which lowers viewers’ resistance even when the message itself is combative or gruesome. In practice, the videos often pair bright toy-like visuals with scenes of bombing, grieving children, military retaliation, and caricatured political villains.",[68,324,325],{},"That contrast is the point. The familiar style makes the content easier to watch and easier to share, while the underlying message remains sharp and political. It is propaganda disguised as entertainment, or at least traveling through the same channels as entertainment.",[327,328,329],"blockquote",{},[68,330,331],{},"“If you can control the narrative, you can really control the atmosphere and the mood.”",[68,333,334,335,338],{},"That idea runs through the whole campaign. The goal is not simply to persuade in a formal sense. It is to ",[72,336,337],{},"set the emotional tone"," of the conflict online: to make one side seem ridiculous, decadent, panicked, or evil, and the other side defiant, wounded, and morally justified.",[63,340,342],{"id":341},"speed-scale-and-the-logic-of-ai","Speed, Scale, and the Logic of AI",[68,344,345,346,349],{},"What gives the campaign unusual power is how quickly it can respond to events. Instead of waiting days or weeks to produce polished propaganda, a small team using ",[72,347,348],{},"off-the-shelf AI tools"," can create new videos in near real time, tying each release to the latest bombing, speech, ceasefire rumor, or social-media controversy.",[68,351,352,353,356,357,308],{},"This is where the AI dimension becomes more important than the specific politics of the moment. ",[72,354,355],{},"Text, image, music, voice, and video generation"," now let a small operation produce what once required a studio. That drastically lowers the cost of narrative warfare. It also blurs the line between ",[72,358,359],{},"meme-making, satire, influence operations, and outright disinformation",[68,361,362],{},"Some videos appear designed mainly to ridicule opponents. Others are more pointed, making contested or false claims about battlefield events, casualties, or political motives. Together, they demonstrate how AI can mass-produce persuasive atmosphere even when individual claims are weak, exaggerated, or unverifiable.",[63,364,366],{"id":365},"a-campaign-aimed-beyond-iran","A Campaign Aimed Beyond Iran",[68,368,369,370,373,374,377],{},"Although the videos are tied to Iran’s wartime messaging, they are often made in ",[72,371,372],{},"English"," and appear aimed at audiences far beyond Iran itself. That is one of the most striking features of the campaign. Rather than focusing only on domestic morale, the content seeks to shape how ",[72,375,376],{},"Americans, Europeans, and global social-media users"," emotionally interpret the conflict.",[68,379,380],{},"In that sense, the videos function less like local propaganda and more like a cross-border media strategy. They try to exploit existing anger about war, distrust of leaders, and the online appetite for irony and spectacle. That broader reach helps explain why the clips have gained traction even among people who may not support Iran but are eager to share content that humiliates political enemies.",[68,382,383],{},"The campaign also exposes a weakness in modern platforms: material can spread because it is funny, outrageous, or visually clever long before users stop to ask who made it, why it was made, or whether its claims are true.",[63,385,387],{"id":386},"platform-moderation-and-the-limits-of-control","Platform Moderation and the Limits of Control",[68,389,390,391,394],{},"The spread of the videos has also raised questions about how social-media companies handle ",[72,392,393],{},"AI-generated political persuasion",". Some channels and accounts have faced moderation or removal, yet the content has often continued circulating across other platforms, reposted by sympathizers, state-linked accounts, protest networks, or ordinary users chasing virality.",[68,396,397],{},"That pattern reflects a larger technological reality. Once synthetic media becomes cheap and portable, enforcement on one platform does not stop distribution everywhere else. Content can be copied, clipped, reposted, translated, remixed, and stripped of its original source. The propaganda does not need a single stable home to remain effective.",[63,399,401],{"id":400},"why-this-matters-in-californias-central-valley","Why This Matters in California’s Central Valley",[68,403,404,405,408,409,412],{},"There is no direct operational link to ",[72,406,407],{},"California’s Central Valley",", but the implications are highly relevant for the region. Communities across ",[72,410,411],{},"Fresno, Bakersfield, Modesto, Stockton, Merced, and surrounding areas"," rely heavily on the same social platforms where AI propaganda now travels fastest. That includes students, farmworkers, small-business owners, local activists, immigrant families, and public officials.",[68,414,415,416,419,420,423,424,427],{},"For the Central Valley, the lesson is not primarily about Iran. It is about how ",[72,417,418],{},"low-cost AI media can manipulate public emotion at scale",". In a region that already navigates intense debates over ",[72,421,422],{},"water, labor, immigration, public health, wildfire smoke, elections, and policing",", the same techniques could be used to distort local issues just as easily as foreign conflicts. Local newsrooms, schools, and civic institutions may need stronger ",[72,425,426],{},"media-literacy and AI-literacy defenses"," as synthetic political content becomes more convincing and more routine.",[63,429,431],{"id":430},"why-the-story-matters-for-ai-and-technology","Why the Story Matters for AI and Technology",[68,433,434,435,438],{},"The bigger significance lies in what this says about the current state of AI. Generative tools are no longer just novelty products for art experiments or chatbots. They are now ",[72,436,437],{},"practical instruments of narrative warfare",". A small team with limited resources can produce emotionally resonant media that competes with state communications, mainstream journalism, and organic online conversation all at once.",[68,440,441],{},"This makes several technology questions harder and more urgent. How should platforms label synthetic political content? How can users distinguish satire from influence operations? What happens when propaganda is not hidden as realism but succeeds precisely because it is exaggerated, memetic, and absurd? And what responsibilities do AI companies have when their tools are used to create persuasive conflict content at scale?",[68,443,444],{},"The campaign shows that the future of propaganda may not look solemn or official. It may look like a joke, a remix, a catchy song, or a toy-brick cartoon in a scrolling feed. That is exactly what makes it effective.",[68,446,447],{},[448,449,450,451,453,454,459],"em",{},"Central Valley AI is produced by the ",[72,452,241],{}," team and developed by ",[455,456,43],"a",{"href":44,"rel":457},[458],"nofollow",", a regional firm that builds, deploys, and integrates AI solutions for businesses across California's Central Valley.",[461,462],"hr",{},[63,464,466],{"id":465},"source","Source",[68,468,469],{},[455,470,471],{"href":471,"rel":472},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nbcnews.com\u002Fworld\u002Firan\u002Firan-slopaganda-team-ai-legos-social-media-rcna341926",[458],{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":474},[475,476,477,478,479,480,481,482,483],{"id":250,"depth":11,"text":251},{"id":284,"depth":11,"text":285},{"id":314,"depth":11,"text":315},{"id":341,"depth":11,"text":342},{"id":365,"depth":11,"text":366},{"id":386,"depth":11,"text":387},{"id":400,"depth":11,"text":401},{"id":430,"depth":11,"text":431},{"id":465,"depth":11,"text":466},"2026-04-24","A small pro-Iran media operation has turned generative AI, meme culture, and Lego-inspired animation into a fast-moving propaganda machine, showing how cheap synthetic media can shape wartime narratives across global social platforms.",{},"\u002Fnews\u002Firans-slopaganda-team-uses-ai-and-lego-style-videos-to-flood-social-media","---\ntitle: \"Iran’s ‘Slopaganda’ Team Uses AI and Lego-Style Videos to Flood Social Media\"\ndescription: \"A small pro-Iran media operation has turned generative AI, meme culture, and Lego-inspired animation into a fast-moving propaganda machine, showing how cheap synthetic media can shape wartime narratives across global social platforms.\"\ndate: 2026-04-24\ntags:\n  - cybersecurity\n  - media\n  - disinformation\nauthor: \"CVAI Newsdesk\"\ndateModified: \"2026-04-24\"\n---\n\n# Iran’s ‘Slopaganda’ Team Uses AI and Lego-Style Videos to Flood Social Media\n\n## A New Kind of Information War\n\nA small Iranian media outfit has emerged as a vivid example of how **generative AI** is reshaping propaganda. Using **Lego-style animation, synthetic voices, music, and rapid-response editing**, the team has produced short videos that spread quickly across **X, Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, and other platforms**, often mocking **Donald Trump**, **Benjamin Netanyahu**, and the U.S.-Israeli war effort while presenting Iran as the aggrieved underdog.\n\nThe videos are part of what observers now call **“slopaganda”**: low-cost, highly shareable AI content built less around polish or factual rigor than around emotional punch, speed, and algorithmic reach. What makes the campaign stand out is not only the volume of output, but the way it packages war messaging in a form that feels playful, familiar, and instantly legible to online audiences.\n\n## The Team Behind the Videos\n\nThe group most often associated with the campaign is known as **Explosive Media**, sometimes referred to as **Explosive News** or **Akhbar Enfejari**. It has described itself as a small, independent, youth-driven team, but reporting across multiple outlets has pointed to a more complicated picture. While the operators have at times framed themselves as separate from the Iranian state, they have also acknowledged that **Tehran has been a client**, and their material has been amplified by **Iranian state-linked and diplomatic accounts**.\n\nThat matters because the campaign does not look like old-fashioned state television propaganda. Instead, it borrows the visual grammar of internet culture: short runtimes, catchy music, blunt symbolism, recurring characters, and references pulled from social media arguments, conspiracy discourse, and pop culture. The result is propaganda that behaves like content native to the feed rather than an official government message.\n\n## Why the Lego Style Works\n\nThe use of **Lego-inspired aesthetics** is central to the campaign’s success. The imagery is instantly recognizable, childlike, and easy to process, which lowers viewers’ resistance even when the message itself is combative or gruesome. In practice, the videos often pair bright toy-like visuals with scenes of bombing, grieving children, military retaliation, and caricatured political villains.\n\nThat contrast is the point. The familiar style makes the content easier to watch and easier to share, while the underlying message remains sharp and political. It is propaganda disguised as entertainment, or at least traveling through the same channels as entertainment.\n\n> “If you can control the narrative, you can really control the atmosphere and the mood.”\n\nThat idea runs through the whole campaign. The goal is not simply to persuade in a formal sense. It is to **set the emotional tone** of the conflict online: to make one side seem ridiculous, decadent, panicked, or evil, and the other side defiant, wounded, and morally justified.\n\n## Speed, Scale, and the Logic of AI\n\nWhat gives the campaign unusual power is how quickly it can respond to events. Instead of waiting days or weeks to produce polished propaganda, a small team using **off-the-shelf AI tools** can create new videos in near real time, tying each release to the latest bombing, speech, ceasefire rumor, or social-media controversy.\n\nThis is where the AI dimension becomes more important than the specific politics of the moment. **Text, image, music, voice, and video generation** now let a small operation produce what once required a studio. That drastically lowers the cost of narrative warfare. It also blurs the line between **meme-making, satire, influence operations, and outright disinformation**.\n\nSome videos appear designed mainly to ridicule opponents. Others are more pointed, making contested or false claims about battlefield events, casualties, or political motives. Together, they demonstrate how AI can mass-produce persuasive atmosphere even when individual claims are weak, exaggerated, or unverifiable.\n\n## A Campaign Aimed Beyond Iran\n\nAlthough the videos are tied to Iran’s wartime messaging, they are often made in **English** and appear aimed at audiences far beyond Iran itself. That is one of the most striking features of the campaign. Rather than focusing only on domestic morale, the content seeks to shape how **Americans, Europeans, and global social-media users** emotionally interpret the conflict.\n\nIn that sense, the videos function less like local propaganda and more like a cross-border media strategy. They try to exploit existing anger about war, distrust of leaders, and the online appetite for irony and spectacle. That broader reach helps explain why the clips have gained traction even among people who may not support Iran but are eager to share content that humiliates political enemies.\n\nThe campaign also exposes a weakness in modern platforms: material can spread because it is funny, outrageous, or visually clever long before users stop to ask who made it, why it was made, or whether its claims are true.\n\n## Platform Moderation and the Limits of Control\n\nThe spread of the videos has also raised questions about how social-media companies handle **AI-generated political persuasion**. Some channels and accounts have faced moderation or removal, yet the content has often continued circulating across other platforms, reposted by sympathizers, state-linked accounts, protest networks, or ordinary users chasing virality.\n\nThat pattern reflects a larger technological reality. Once synthetic media becomes cheap and portable, enforcement on one platform does not stop distribution everywhere else. Content can be copied, clipped, reposted, translated, remixed, and stripped of its original source. The propaganda does not need a single stable home to remain effective.\n\n## Why This Matters in California’s Central Valley\n\nThere is no direct operational link to **California’s Central Valley**, but the implications are highly relevant for the region. Communities across **Fresno, Bakersfield, Modesto, Stockton, Merced, and surrounding areas** rely heavily on the same social platforms where AI propaganda now travels fastest. That includes students, farmworkers, small-business owners, local activists, immigrant families, and public officials.\n\nFor the Central Valley, the lesson is not primarily about Iran. It is about how **low-cost AI media can manipulate public emotion at scale**. In a region that already navigates intense debates over **water, labor, immigration, public health, wildfire smoke, elections, and policing**, the same techniques could be used to distort local issues just as easily as foreign conflicts. Local newsrooms, schools, and civic institutions may need stronger **media-literacy and AI-literacy defenses** as synthetic political content becomes more convincing and more routine.\n\n## Why the Story Matters for AI and Technology\n\nThe bigger significance lies in what this says about the current state of AI. Generative tools are no longer just novelty products for art experiments or chatbots. They are now **practical instruments of narrative warfare**. A small team with limited resources can produce emotionally resonant media that competes with state communications, mainstream journalism, and organic online conversation all at once.\n\nThis makes several technology questions harder and more urgent. How should platforms label synthetic political content? How can users distinguish satire from influence operations? What happens when propaganda is not hidden as realism but succeeds precisely because it is exaggerated, memetic, and absurd? And what responsibilities do AI companies have when their tools are used to create persuasive conflict content at scale?\n\nThe campaign shows that the future of propaganda may not look solemn or official. It may look like a joke, a remix, a catchy song, or a toy-brick cartoon in a scrolling feed. That is exactly what makes it effective.\n\n*Central Valley AI is produced by the **CVAI Newsdesk** team and developed by [Kaweah Tech](https:\u002F\u002Fkaweah.tech), a regional firm that builds, deploys, and integrates AI solutions for businesses across California's Central Valley.*\n\n---\n\n## Source\n\nhttps:\u002F\u002Fwww.nbcnews.com\u002Fworld\u002Firan\u002Firan-slopaganda-team-ai-legos-social-media-rcna341926\n",{"title":239,"description":485},{"loc":487},"news\u002Firans-slopaganda-team-uses-ai-and-lego-style-videos-to-flood-social-media",[493,494,495],"cybersecurity","media","disinformation","e1pmju-QoLevTzF-8mvrOkP5W56Gk2GKgH_CpmZoWrk",1779739134873]