Iran’s Infowar: Lego, AI and ever tightening control

The accusation beforehand has been cardinal to the Iranian government’s warfare effort.

For an outer audience, determination is an innovative online strategy that has consisted of AI Lego, memes and hep hop diss tracks directed astatine Donald Trump and the MAGA base. But this coexists with much brutal home tactics: crackdowns, arrests and net blackouts.

The effect has been the Iranian authorities making usage of the net for PR internationally, portion simultaneously preventing the Iranian radical from openly accessing the nett themselves.

Contributors:
Ali Hashem – Correspondent, Al Jazeera English
Mehran Kamrava – Professor of Government, Georgetown University successful Qatar
Tara Kangarlou – Journalist & Author, The Heartbeat of Iran
Maral Karimi – Lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan University

On our radar

The sidesplitting of Lebanese writer Amal Khalil unfolded successful the mode that truthful galore Israeli assassinations of journalists successful Gaza person – infinitesimal by minute, hr by hour, successful a signifier that has go shockingly familiar. There’s the surveillance, the strike, the obstruction of rescue and then, the denial – Israel’s insistence that it does not people journalists, medics oregon rescue workers.

Meenakshi Ravi reports.

Pakistan’s peacemaker infinitesimal and the missing stories

Pakistan has recovered itself astatine the centre of 1 of the world’s astir consequential stories  – by hosting talks betwixt the United States and Iran, brokering ceasefires, earning the precise nationalist praise of Donald Trump and making headlines astir the world.

But this PR infinitesimal is obscuring a large deal, including an undercover warfare with Afghanistan and a crushing cost-of-living situation astatine home. We talk to Amber Rahim Shamsi astir the home authorities down Pakistan’s diplomatic infinitesimal successful the sun.

Featuring:
Amber Rahim Shamsi – Pakistan Editor, Nukta