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Iran and China Deploy First Fully Autonomous AI Agents in Social Media Influence Operations

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Iran and China have launched the first known influence campaigns powered entirely by autonomous artificial intelligence agents, marking a significant escalation in state-sponsored information warfare. According to reporting from September 2026, both nations deployed networks of AI-powered bots on Instagram, Facebook, X, and TikTok to conduct coordinated disinformation operations with minimal human oversight—a shift from earlier campaigns that required substantial manual intervention.

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