Is it even propaganda if you just read aloud your enemy’s wikipedia? I think Bubba refers to someone else than Clinton and Iran’s regime is despotic assholes, but apart from that pretty accurate depiction.

▲

YZF 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

propaganda (noun)

information or ideas that are spread by an organized group or government to influence people’s opinions, esp. by not giving all the facts or by secretly emphasizing only one way of looking at the facts

or another definition:

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular cause, doctrine, or point of view.

▲

delis-thumbs-7e 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sure, that’s one definition, I was only asking rhetorically. But if you look deeper into the social scientific and historical literature on the term, it’s a bit contested. I personally would see propaganda as something far more insidious than simply “all mass media”, like your definitions from apparently some online dictionaries seem to suggest. I think there’s a difference between Triumph of the Will, a toothpaste commercial and ironic AI-generated music video about the leaders of the country attacking you. I’m not sure what that difference is - this would actually be a legit subject for proper academic research - but I would maybe rather try to analyse the desired goals of the makers and spreaders of the said media than just use some far too broad definition that turns the whole world virtually meaningless. I think there’s some nuance here.

▲

vkou 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

So, in short, almost anything of substance that is disseminated over mass and social media?

	▲	YZF 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If its aim is to influence opinion then yes. It doesn't matter if it's true or not true. It's the goal that matters. One can influence opinions with a subset of truths.
	▲	6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		[deleted]

▲

stefantalpalaru 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

[dead]