{"id":685405,"date":"2026-05-21T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/685405\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:29:10","slug":"donald-trumps-ai-slopaganda-machine-is-pumping-out-fake-imagery-and-reshaping-political-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/685405\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s AI \u2018slopaganda\u2019 machine is pumping out fake imagery and reshaping political communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Clark and Anna Nicolaou<\/p>\n<p>May 21, 2026 \u2013 1.33pm<\/p>\n<p>At 5.20pm on May 9, Donald Trump posted to his 12.6 million Truth Social followers an image of himself standing on the deck of a boat, peering through binoculars at burning warships. The image was generated using AI.<\/p>\n<p>Nine seconds later came another: a caricature of Illinois governor JB Pritzker surrounded by piles of fast food with the caption: \u201cJB is too busy to keep Chicago safe!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Clark and Anna Nicolaou May 21, 2026 \u2013 1.33pm At 5.20pm on May 9, Donald Trump posted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-685405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}