With the synchronicity to make a marketing manager proud, a clutch of TikTok influencers have been asking a simple question: “You live in Dubai, aren’t you scared?”
The users provide the answer by cutting to slow-motion images of Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, striding forward to swelling music.
“I know who protects us,” declares one user. And another. And another.
As Iranian missiles and drones streak across the region, social media influencers have raced…


