{"id":31792,"date":"2025-07-15T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31792"},"modified":"2025-07-15T04:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:27:12","slug":"israel-and-iran-usher-in-new-era-of-psychological-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31792","title":{"rendered":"Israel and Iran Usher In New Era of Psychological Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.<\/p>\n

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During last month\u2019s war between Israel and Iran, the countries turned social media into a digital battlefield, using deception and falsehoods to try to sway the outcome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the hours before Israeli forces bombed Evin prison<\/a> in Iran\u2019s capital on June 23, posts appeared on social media in Persian, foreshadowing the attack and urging Iranians to come free the prisoners.<\/p>\n

Moments after the bombs struck, a video appeared on X and Telegram, purporting to show a blast at an entrance to the prison, which is notorious for holding political prisoners. One post on X included a hashtag, in Persian: \u201c#freeevin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attack on the prison was real, but the posts and video were not what they seemed. They were part of an Israeli ruse, according to researchers who tracked the effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It was not the only trickery during the conflict. Over 12 days of attacks, Israel and Iran turned social media into a digital battlefield, using deception and falsehoods to try to sway the outcome even as they traded kinetic missile strikes that killed hundreds and roiled an already turbulent Middle East. The posts, researchers said, represented a greater intensity of information warfare, by beginning before the strikes, employing artificial intelligence and spreading widely so quickly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the hours before Israeli forces bombed Evin prison in Iran\u2019s capital on June 23, posts appeared on social media in Persian, foreshadowing the attack and urging Iranians to flock to the site in protest.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.During last month\u2019s war between Israel and Iran, the countries turned social media into a digital battlefield, using deception and falsehoods to try to sway the outcome.In the hours before Israeli forces bombed Evin prison in Iran\u2019s capital on June 23, posts appeared on social media in Persian, foreshadowing the attack and urging Iranians to come free the prisoners.Moments after the bombs struck, a video appeared on X and Telegram, purporting to show a blast at an entrance to the prison, which is notorious for holding political prisoners. One post on X included a hashtag, in Persian: \u201c#freeevin.\u201dThe attack on the prison was real, but the posts and video were not what they seemed. They were part of an Israeli ruse, according to researchers who tracked the effort.It was not the only trickery during the conflict. Over 12 days of attacks, Israel and Iran turned social media into a digital battlefield, using deception and falsehoods to try to sway the outcome even as they traded kinetic missile strikes that killed hundreds and roiled an already turbulent Middle East. The posts, researchers said, represented a greater intensity of information warfare, by beginning before the strikes, employing artificial intelligence and spreading widely so quickly.In the hours before Israeli forces bombed Evin prison in Iran\u2019s capital on June 23, posts appeared on social media in Persian, foreshadowing the attack and urging Iranians to flock to the site in protest.The public prosecutor\u2019s office of Evin prison after it was hit by Israel\u2019s attacks in Tehran.Arash Khamooshi for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31794,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31797,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31792\/revisions\/31797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}