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Mar 29, 2026 18 min

The Pentagon Learned from TikTok

from FUNK !T | Mindful Media & Communication Hosted by Sascha Funk

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.

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