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Meme-driven AI content that trivializes conflict as it spreads misinformation is increasingly crowding out reality on digital platforms, in what ISD researchers call the "Legofication" of war propaganda.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

“It trivializes American citizenship, the most valuable thing in the world. Whenever you trivialize something you make it less meaningful.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 24, 2023

The author repeatedly says his goal is not "equating" the men—as "it trivializes Hitler's obscene crimes to compare them to Trump's often pathetic foibles."

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2023

His characteristically dyspeptic interview in the Wall Street Journal trivializes the intelligence and individuality of Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson for no apparent reason beyond petty resentment.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2023

Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer