Darren Linville

So they definitely have the capacity to push a lot of messaging across broad communities and to do so very effectively.

I don't think that will actually have much of an impact on their spread.

You know, their Telegram channel is still up.

The Trump administration has been putting out similar violent content and they're not being censored.

Oh, I think it absolutely does.

Iran knows that they can't go toe-to-toe with the U.S.

and Israel militarily and that this is one of a couple of powerful cards they have to play.

There's no question that this is important to Iran.

They want to make the war as painful as possible for Israel and for the United States and for Trump specifically.

They want to try to shorten this conflict ultimately.

And one of the only ways they have to do that is through propaganda.

He says when news breaks... People want more content.

And so I think the people that create this kind of AI slop are going to create more of it to fuel that beast.

In most of these cases, it's most likely just influencers who are trying to make a buck.

The new feature was rolled out late last week.

It allows users on X to see where different accounts are based, and not all is what it seems.

One account calling itself American was based in Pakistan.

Other accounts pushing politically divisive content were in Nigeria and Bangladesh.

Darren Linville is at Clemson University.

He says many of these accounts are stirring up political tensions for likes, follows, and ultimately cash.