ToplinePro-Iranian AI-generated propaganda videos—from realistic-looking portrayals of warfare to satirical videos starring a Lego version of President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—are accruing millions of views on social media amid the Iran war, but most platforms won’t say if they are trying to limit their spread.A screen grab from an Iran propaganda video showing Lego caricatures of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, widely distributed across social media platforms.Still from XKey FactsThe intelligence platform Graphika told Forbes it traced one video, which depicts a Lego version of Trump waking up in a cold sweat as Iran attacks U.S. warships, that has been viewed millions of times to the Telegram account Akhbar Enfejari, which translates to “Explosive News,” which posted the video on Sunday.The video was reposted by both the Iran-backed Tasnim News Telegram account and the Russian state media agency RT on X—which has 3.5 million followers and earned 850,000 views—within an hour of Akhbar Enfejari’s original post, according to Graphika.Tasnim News, which is affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, has 2.5 million Telegram subscribers (and nearly 400,000 X followers) and has posted other propaganda, often AI-generated, taking aim at Trump and the United States.Akhbar Enfejari also has accounts on Instagram, where it has 28,000 followers, and YouTube, where it has posted about a dozen Lego-themed AI videos to push pro-Iranian messages since the start of the war.Akhbar Enfejari’s most popular Instagram post, which features Lego caricatures of Trump and Netanyahu, has more than 260,000 views.But the Lego-themed propaganda videos have found a bigger reach on X: One video alone, posted by a user with nearly 400,000 followers whose location says she lives in Brazil, garnered 2.5 million views on a Lego Trump video.Videos Target Western Audiences Critical Of Israel—and Jeffey EpsteinMany of these videos target Western audiences, with English text and references to American politics. One depicts Trump and Netanyahu sitting at a table with a Lego version of Satan, where Trump is seen holding a binder labeled, “Epstein Files,” before hitting a button that sends a rocket flying toward Iran. The video cuts from a shot inside what appears to be an Iranian school for girls to rubble with stray shoes and backpacks on the ground, an apparent reference to a strike, now blamed on an American rocket, on an Iranian girls school that killed at least 175 at the beginning of the war. The rest of the video depicts Iran launching strikes on Israel and at United States ships. Another video, which also features a Lego Trump, includes what appears to be an AI-generated rap. “The secrets are leaking, the pressure is rising, we locked on the target, and now you are hiding, L.O.S.E.R.,” the hook goes. The song also accuses Trump of sacrificing American soldiers “for a lie” and flips his “Make America Great Again” slogan to “MIGA,” exchanging America for Iran. The AI-generated music video includes shots of a grave bearing Trump’s name, a sweaty Trump being questioned about the Epstein files at a press conference and Trump lost in a maze designed like the Iranian flag. Big Number145 million. That’s how many views pro-Iranian AI-generated videos, posted by tens of thousands of accounts, garnered in the first weeks of the war, according to Cyabra. A Cyabra analysis found many posts showed “clear signs of coordinated activity,” including similar language used and synchronized posting patterns. In another report earlier this week, Cyabra analyzed a narrower set of 47 accounts that pushed pro-Iran propaganda on social media, concluding videos posted by these accounts garnered 40 million views, primarily on TikTok.How Are Social Media Platforms Responding To Iran Propaganda?Meta—which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp—TikTok and X did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Meta’s community standards say its platforms prohibit coordinated inauthentic behavior, which it defines as “complex forms of deception, performed by a network of inauthentic assets controlled by the same individual or individuals.” TikTok also says it prohibits “covert influence operations,” which may include “networks of accounts” working to mislead or influence people about armed conflicts, among other political topics. X’s policy on violent entities prohibits “recruiting, or providing or distributing services (such as media/propaganda) to further stated goals,” but exceptions may be made for “state or governmental entities.” Boot Bullwinkle, a YouTube spokesperson, told Forbes, “If we determine content is linked to a coordinated influence operation, we remove it under our policies.” Google publishes quarterly reports authored by its Threat Analysis Group, which monitors and counters government-backed threats. It has not yet issued a report for the first quarter of 2026, which would cover the Iran war, but it says it countered Iran-linked threats as recently as the third quarter of 2025. In that report, Google said it terminated 69 YouTube channels found to be part of “coordinated influence operations linked to Iran,” which shared pro-Iranian and pro-Palestinian content that was critical of the United States and Israel, also terminating another 15 Iran-linked YouTube channels that pushed pro-Iran content. A Reddit spokesperson pointed Forbes to the company’s manipulated content and misleading behavior policy, which prohibits posts that “manipulate information or unduly influence narratives” regarding geopolitical events and other political topics. Reddit’s policy specifies AI content that “deliberately misleads others about real-life events” is prohibited.Chief CriticDan Brahmy, co-founder and CEO of Cyabra,a firm that monitors misinformation and coordinated threats online, told Forbes he does not believe social media platforms have done enough to target online misinformation and propaganda online. “I think it’s a combination of not putting enough effort and emphasis on it, and also not knowing everything they should know about the complexity of information warfare and malicious propaganda online,” Brahmy said.How Is The White House Also Using Memes Amid The Iran War?The White House has also pushed anti-Iran messages through memes on social media, sometimes by using recognizable intellectual property. The White House posted a video last week interweaving scenes from “Wii Sports” with what appear to be strikes on Iran that has over 100 million views on X. It has also posted videos using imagery from “Call of Duty,” the NFL and MLB, all of which were used to flaunt strikes. Further ReadingHow Lego Became a Go-To Meme of the Propaganda Wars (Wall Street Journal)