Through its social media feed, the White House has sent out a series of pumped-up videos that mix real Iran war explosions with movie action heroes, video game footage and sports heroes.

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Humor has served many functions since Russia’s full-scale invasion, from providing Ukrainians with a sense of escape and hope ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But if you look closer, a pattern emerges. Many of these phrases, images, and ...

There is one (and maybe only one) extraordinary moment in Brett Ratner’s somniferous documentary on the current first lady of the United States. Towards the close, as Donald and Melania Trump, in the ...

Melania: Twenty Days to History starts with a long drone shot above the Atlantic Ocean. The camera glides over a white sand beach, a pool, a golfing green, before swooping down over the reclaimed ...

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A gigantic billboard threatening a US naval flotilla that is currently nearing the Iranian coast is the latest visual propaganda message that has been rolled out above one Tehran street corner in ...

Samuel Lloyd received funding from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions for the research project that inspired the research in this article. He wrote that paper while receiving funding from the ...

Many of the largest and most widely established state-sponsored online propaganda campaigns have embraced using artificial intelligence, a new report finds — and they’re often bad at it. The report, ...

The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening across the city and suburbs. The diverging sources of information are creating “parallel universes," professor Nick ...