Much of the White House's online messaging about the Iran operation has been gleefully trollish.
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The U.S. government is treating strikes on Iran like a video game, inviting the country to watch as memes and montages subsume the human cost of war.
Why it matters: The Trump administration didn't invent the gamification of war, nor did it invent wartime propaganda — a tool of statecraft as old as armed conflict itself.
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The war has been distilled into a shareable, meme-able bits of social media.
What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hit, says Guardian columnist…
What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hit, says Guardian columnist…
The U.S. and Iran are using memes and pop culture on social media to influence public perception of the Middle East conflict.
Iranian propaganda is also homing in on the war's destabilizing impact on the global economy and energy prices, which have shot…
Social media users were outraged by the gamifying of the U.S.-Israeli missile strikes against Iran.
