Propaganda

Definitions

1. Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.
   uncountable, usually
2. The propagation of the faith by the Catholic Church by means of missionary work etc.
   historical, uncountable, usually
3. Such communication specifically when it is biased, misleading, or provoking mainly emotional responses.
   derogatory, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Despite being biased and often untrue, propaganda material can be useful in OSINT analysis.”

“Meanwhile, with something like⟳ twenty-five million new mouths bawling for food every year, the supply⟳ problem became steadily worse, and after years of ineffective propaganda a couple of atrocious harvests had at last⟳ made the people aware of its urgency.”

“They established a government propaganda commission, called the Creel Commission, which succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population which wanted to destroy⟳ everything German, tear⟳ the Germans limb from limb, go to war and save⟳ the world.”

“In this metropolis that had a prewar population of almost a million, but where the city center now feels like⟳ an Orwellian ghost town of propaganda posters and armed patrols, perhaps no one feels more alone than those who still harbor pro-Ukrainian sentiments.”

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