Pro-Iran Videos Flood Social Media—Including A Lego Version Of Trump—But X, Meta, TikTok Are Silent

Pro-Iranian AI-generated propaganda videos—from realistic-looking portrayals of warfare to satirical videos starring a Lego version of President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—are accruing millions of views on social media amid the Iran war, but most platforms won’t say if they are trying to limit their spread. The intelligence platform Graphika told Forbes it traced one video, which depicts a Lego version of Trump waking up in a cold sweat as Iran attacks U.S. warships, that has been viewed millions of times to the Telegram account Akhbar Enfejari, which translates to “Explosive News,” which posted the video on Sunday. The video was reposted by both the Iran-backed Tasnim News Telegram account and the Russian state media agency RT on X—which has 3.5 million followers and earned 850,000 views—within an hour of Akhbar Enfejari’s original post, according to Graphika. Akhbar Enfejari also has accounts on Instagram, where it has 28,000 followers, and YouTube, where it has posted about a dozen Lego-themed AI videos to push pro-Iranian messages since the start of the war. Akhbar Enfejari’s most popular Instagram post, which features Lego caricatures of Trump and Netanyahu, has more than 260,000 views. But the Lego-themed propaganda videos have found a bigger reach on X: One video alone, posted by a user with nearly 400,000 followers whose location says she lives in Brazil, garnered 2.5 million views on a Lego Trump video. BIG NUMBER: 145 million. That’s how many views pro-Iranian AI-generated videos, posted by tens of thousands of accounts, garnered in the first weeks of the war, according to Cyabra. A Cyabra analysis found many posts showed “clear signs of coordinated activity,” including similar language used and synchronized posting patterns. In another report earlier this week, Cyabra analyzed a narrower set of 47 accounts that pushed pro-Iran propaganda on social media, concluding videos posted by these accounts garnered 40 million views, primarily on TikTok. Meta—which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp—TikTok and X did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Boot Bullwinkle, a YouTube spokesperson, told Forbes, “If we determine content is linked to a coordinated influence operation, we remove it under our policies.” Google said it terminated 69 YouTube channels found to be part of “coordinated influence operations linked to Iran,” which shared pro-Iranian and pro-Palestinian content that was critical of the United States and Israel, also terminating another 15 Iran-linked YouTube channels that pushed pro-Iran content (per its Q3 2025 Threat Analysis Group report). Dan Brahmy, co-founder and CEO of Cyabra, told Forbes he does not believe social media platforms have done enough to target online misinformation: “I think it’s a combination of not putting enough effort and emphasis on it, and also not knowing everything they should know about the complexity of information warfare and malicious propaganda online.” The White House has also pushed anti-Iran messages through memes, including a video interweaving scenes from “Wii Sports” with what appear to be strikes on Iran that has over 100 million views on X, and videos using imagery from “Call of Duty,” the NFL and MLB.