Propaganda

A Tehran Revolutionary Court has upheld a one-year prison sentence and a two-year travel ban against Oscar-nominated movie director Jafar Panahi for spreading anti-government propaganda. The court rejected an appeal by the filmmaker’s legal team, upholding a verdict issued while Panahi was outside the country campaigning for his film, It…

An Iranian court has upheld a conviction against “It Was Just an Accident” director Jafar Panahi for “propaganda against the regime,” as the Palme D’Or winner faces a one-year prison sentence and travel ban. Panahi’s lawyer Mostafa Nili announced the decision by the court to reject the director’s appeal on Sunday.…

Open-weight models, including Nvidia’s Nemotron and Alibaba’s Qwen, showed strong results comparable to Anthropic’s best models. GPT-5.4—the best-performing model from OpenAI—also performed relatively well on the benchmark, providing “Exemplary” responses on 54 percent of questions and achieving an 88.9 mean score. Unsurprisingly, recent frontier models showed a much stronger tendency…

The United States is feeding Pentagon propaganda to internet users in Latin American countries using a new AI-laden content mill, an investigation by The Intercept has found. La Tilde quietly began development early this year and appears to still be a work in progress, pitching itself as a modern media…

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Kevin O’Leary, a prominent figure on “Shark Tank,” and the Trump administration have suggested that anti-data center sentiments across the United States are being driven by a Chinese propaganda effort. O’Leary, who faces protests against his proposed 40,000-acre data center near Salt Lake City, alleged in a video released on…

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD MAY 29, 2026 18:05 Updated: MAY 29, 2026 18:56 Since 2016, a mystery has surrounded World Vision’s former Gaza director Mohammed el-Halabi. Halabi was released back to Hamas-ruled Gaza in February 2025 as part of a hostage-prisoner deal, but in an extensive interview with…

The Chairman of Oke-Ogun Community APC, Prince Ifekayode Akinbode, has accused the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of slipping into panic mode ahead of the 2027 governorship election, alleging that the opposition party has resorted to blackmail and divisive propaganda over fears of an impending electoral…

By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has told President Bola Tinubu that his time was up, declaring that “the era of political complacency, propaganda and governance by deception is drawing to a close” and that Nigerians are preparing to reclaim their country through the power of the…

Since the US–Israel war against Iran began in late February, images of giant billboards in Tehran have been ubiquitous across traditional and social media. These billboards have been placed in some of the busiest and most visible parts of the city, and are constantly being updated to reflect current events.…