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SLOPAGANDA AND AI-GENERATED PROPAGANDA
The Iran conflict has revealed a new front in information warfare: AI-generated memes designed to influence not just what audiences think, but how they feel. Across international media in April 2026, I examined this emerging landscape as a form of narrative warfare—where speed, humor, and emotional resonance converge.
Who controls the narrative controls the mood. The following interviews capture that shift as it unfolded.
Pro-Iran AI-generated Lego propaganda flooding the market, ABC News Australia
Iran’s war propaganda homes in on Trump with Lego memes, CNBC
Why everyone is talking about Iran’s ‘slopaganda’ memes, AFR
Pro-Iran memes have used AI to troll Trump and try to control the war narrative, AP
AI-savvy pro-Iran groups troll America with Lego-style propaganda videos, Associated Press
Pro-Iran groups deploy AI to troll Trump, influence the war narrative, AP/PBS
Slopaganda–how Iran’s viral videos skewer the US, RTE
SELECT INTERVIEWS
How graphic pro-Israel ads appeared in kids’ video games
How Close Have US and China come into direct military confrontation?
Al Jazeera Inside Story: Who’s Targeted by the Trilateral Security Summit (Japan, US, Korea)
CBS News Shinzo Abe’s assassination shocks mostly gun-free Japan
NPR The legacy of ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was shot to death
Japan has almost completely eliminated gun deaths — here’s how
Al Jazeera English How much influence does BRICS wield on the world stage?
WION (India) Gravitas: Quad Summit: What’s on the agenda?
BBC World News on Trump’s North Korea Policy
BBC World News on South Korean Presidential Election
Persuader-in-Chief: Deconstructing Trumpaganda
The Art of the Steal: What Donald Trump Can Teach Us About Persuasion and Propaganda
Japan: The Super Nation Brand (Temple University Japan)
US-Japan Relations Post-Election 2016 (with Dr. Gerald Curtis)
Professor Nancy Snow Public Diplomacy Keynote Speech (Seoul National University)
Trump and Japan (with Glen Fukushima)
- Diversity in Japan (with Alexander Dmitrenko)
- Smoking in Japan
- Relationships in Japan
- Education in Japan
- Japan’s Tourism Conundrum
- Women’s Empowerment (with Hon. Rui Matsukawa)
- Japan’s Media Strategy (with Dr. Tomohiko Taniguchi)
- Tokyo Rainbow Pride (with Vickie Skorji)
- Suicide in Japan (with Vickie Skorji)
- Cherry Blossoms
- English in Japan
- Akie Abe
- LGBT in Japan
- Japan & US Relations (with Dr. Gerald Curtis)
- Tokyo & Kyoto “Best Cities”
- Japan’s Virgins
- Japan’s Public Diplomacy
- Feminism in Japan
- Japan’s Information War
- The G-7 Summit in Ise-Shima
- Understanding Japan (with Benjamin Boas)
- Cool Japan
- Nation Brand Japan
American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ)
- BookTV After Words with Mahvish Ruksana Khan
- LA Times Festival of Books: Future of Iraq: What’s Next?
- The Arrogance of American Power (USC keynote)
- BookTV Information War author talk
Branding Japan: Challenges and Opportunities in 2015
Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC), Sophia University
Promoting Japan’s Reputation and Global Image FCC Tokyo 2015
The Japan Brand: Promoting Japanese Culture to the World G1 Global Conference 2014
The Future of Japanese Public Diplomacy (Syracuse University)
The Brothers Warner (PBS-aired documentary film by Cass Warner)
Decoding the Past: Nazi Prophecies (History Channel)
War is Sell (documentary film by Brian Standing)
OPINION PIECES (print/online)
Foreign Policy in Focus Abe Road
The Guardian Isis beheading videos: the scariest part is how well their propaganda is working
Japan Times Japan’s Brand as Good as the People Behind It
Foreign Policy in Focus Branding Japan
Metropolis Uncool Japan: Japan’s Gross National Propaganda
Metropolis Holding Up Half the Sky
New York Times Lose the Moderator
Los Angeles Times Why I Turned Down Hustler
Los Angeles Times Is It a `Hood or Verging on Good?
Newsday Genoa Protesters: Your Image Needs Work
Foreign Policy in Focus Anti-Americanism and the Rise of Civic Diplomacy
Media Channel We Need More Propaganda, Not Less
PRINT INTERVIEWS
Globe and Mail Can japan recapture its cool?
Die Welt Der blutige Todeskampf der Delfine
Associated Press Kennedy shows “soft-power skills” in visit to Japan’s disaster zone
USA TODAY Tokyo welcomes Caroline Kennedy as new ambassador
Le Monde Les ambiguïtés de la nouvelle assurance japonaise
La Lettura Corriere Della Sera Il soft power è come sushi caldo: inverosimile
OC Weekly Propaganda Nation
Global Issues A Lot of the Gaza Story is Being Left Out
Global Issues Media in the United States
Global Issues War, Propaganda and the Media
LA Times We Need People, Not Propaganda, to Sell America to the World
BBC News Peace Activists Caught Up in Mid-East Conflict
Fox News Onscreen Violence Seen With New Eyes
Brainwashington von Innen (German)
Media Matters with Bob McChesney
National Radio Project When the Media Report for Duty: War and Truth
Interpress Q & A Interview with Nancy Snow
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