propaganda

plural propagandas · alternative propagand

1. uncountableusuallyAgitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.

   Near-synonym: public diplomacy (sometimes asserted to be synonymous)

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   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.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 28

   Synonyms: public diplomacy

   1. historicaluncountableusuallylifestyleThe propagation of the faith by the Catholic Church by means of missionary work etc.

      Synonyms: public diplomacy

2. derogatoryuncountableusuallySuch communication specifically when it is biased, misleading, or provoking mainly emotional responses.

   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.

   2014 September 25, Anthony Faiola, “An Orwellian nightmare for pro-Ukrainians in rebel-held east”, in The Washington Post, Nash Holdings, LLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2016, retrieved 25 Sep 2014

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   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.

   2002, Noam Chomsky, “Selections”, in Media Control

alternative propagand

1. pluralplural of propagandum