Propaganda

A recent CBS News article claims, in its very title in fact, to separate “medical facts from misinformation” around so-called “gender-affirming care.” However, rather than separate the facts from the falsehoods, the article peddles lies and half-truths, assuming the conclusions it claims to prove in a thinly veiled piece of…

It is disturbing that a section of Nigerians is banding in folly with alien agents who are running propaganda against Nigeria over our stance on the putsch in Niger Republic. It is deeply disturbing. To some, the interest is not about Nigeria or good governance, rather it is about politics…

BJP on Monday accused the Congress of aligning with China and a media outlet allegedly funded by China to do “anti-India propaganda”. The Congress described the allegations as “absurd” with the party threatening to file a privilege motion in Parliament. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and later Union ministers Anurag Thakur…

The protest in London’s bustling Chinatown brought together a variety of activist groups to oppose a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. So it was peculiar when a street brawl broke out among mostly ethnic Chinese demonstrators. Witnesses said the fight, in November 2021, started when men aligned with the event’s…

Abortion The Washington Post is back at it, showing the hard beauty of parenthood. (Photo by Grace Robertson/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Washington Post is back with another piece of inadvertent pro-life propaganda. In the past few years, as states began to pass landmark legislation to protect unborn children, pro-abortion…

Listen to article PTI leader Asad Qaiser on Saturday called for an end to what he called was ongoing “propaganda” against his party, and urged for “powerful quarters” to ensure free and fair elections in the country. In a video statement, Qaiser, who unlike many of his peers did not leave the…

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. To appreciate the power of a myth, let’s take a quick visit to post-Soviet Russia. In the weeks after Vladimir Putin came to power in early 2000,…

By Kehinde Bamigbetan Professional maturity is expected to come with experience on the job. After over three decades of reporting, writing and editing scripts, it is a pity that malicious propaganda has sent Steve Osuji down the hill to a catastrophic abyss. His petty and pitiable piece of malignant disinformation…

Photo: Lynsey Addario/Paramount+/Lynsey Addario/Paramount+ Special Ops: Lioness, the latest Paramount+ show from the prolific cowboy whisperer extraordinaire Taylor Sheridan, opens cold on a job gone wrong. Joe (Zoe Saldana), head of a covert CIA operation tasked with flipping the mothers, wives, girlfriends, and acquaintances of male terrorist leaders, is trying…

This week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, declared war on the new “Barbie” movie, which he claims promotes “Chinese propaganda.” Cruz says a cartoonish world map advances China’s controversial and contested claim to the South China Sea. Barbie is the movie about a doll.   Cruz has given right-wing media a…