The Pentagon Learned from TikTok

About this episode

This episode discusses the Pentagon's use of social media and propaganda techniques in modern communication.

The US military released footage of the Iran strikes this week. It was edited. It had music. It cut like an action trailer. 40 million impressions in 24 hours — before most people thought to ask what they were actually watching. In this episode: why governments in 2026 don't need to manage journalists anymore, what Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle has to do with a Pentagon post on X, and how propaganda stopped asking you to believe things — and started asking you to share them instead. FUNK !T is media theory for the stuff actually happening right now.

People in this episode

Host: Sascha Funk

Topics covered

• military media
• propaganda
• social media
• journalism
• government communication
• media theory

Keywords

• Pentagon
• TikTok
• propaganda
• media theory
• journalism
• Guy Debord
• Iran strikes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US military, Pentagon

Places: Iran

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