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Meme warfare
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:26:12
Publish Date: 2026-03-24 18:00:00
Description:

Have you seen the video of the US military bombing Iran spliced with clips of SpongeBob Squarepants? It’s an official video released by the US government and represents a new kind of wartime propaganda.

This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto and Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Andrea Lopez-Cruzado, engineered by Patrick Boyd and David Tatasciore, and hosted by Noel King.

A screenshot from a White House X post about the Iran war titled "Operation Epic Fury."

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