Israel has been linked to an AI influence operation around Iran’s protests, pushing regime change and it’s just been blown apart. Right, so this is about more than protests flaring up in Iran, and it goes beyond the levels of Israeli interference we already knew about through Mossad, because what’s now broken is news that Israel has also been running an AI-driven influence operation designed to inflate, steer, and shape how unrest in Iran is being perceived by all of us on the outside, helped along by mainstream media and far too many self-appointed spokespeople getting boosted on certain platforms. Because the moment a foreign AI campaign enters the picture, all those proclamations about “inevitable revolution” and “this is what the Iranian people want” stop sounding like insight and start sounding like people clapping at a rigged scoreboard. A  ...