Propaganda

Since the rise of veganism, normally reasonable people can be found muttering mutinously about “propaganda” and being “dictated to” whenever the words “plant-based” appear. The Argentine author Agustina Bazterrica, whose homeland is synonymous with steak, wonders in this prizewinning novel how far committed carnivores would be willing to go for…

(NEW YORK) — Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, making 2019 the second straight year that the circulation of propaganda material has more than doubled. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism reported…

When commitment feels rare and everyone’s lonely, Change of Heart is a Valentine's Week investigation of what makes relationships so hard—and how they can be better. 2007 was an objectively terrible year to publish a book about heterosexual cruising techniques. Online dating, already widespread, was moments away from being normalized.…

Fake News Hoax in Russia Tries Blaming the US For Coronavirus (ibtimes.com) Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:34PM from the spreading-like-a-virus dept. "Russia's intelligence services are apparently behind a well-coordinated social media campaign to blame the U.S. for creating and unleashing the Wuhan coronavirus on the world,"…

In more than an hour of improvisational ramblings that appeared more like propaganda than a White House event, President Donald Trump on Thursday declared victory the day after Senate Republicans acquitted him in impeachment proceedings that were largely favorable toward him. As the former reality television host walked to his lectern,…

Late last year, Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture released a succinct new take on the country’s national narrative, via YouTube: a five-minute animated music video unpithily titled “The History of Ukraine—Complete and Uncompromising, Unadorned and Pop.” With rap from the venerable Ukrainian hip-hop group TNMK, lyrics by the activist poet Artem…

The wreckage of a U.S. military plane that crashed and burned in a snowy mountainous region in Afghanistan on Monday was still fresh when Iranian state TV ran a story claiming a top CIA officer was among the dead. Like all good propaganda, the story was mostly false, but with…

Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! Facebook Stock Plummets 6 Percent After It Reported Fourth-Quarter Earnings, Wiping Out $30 Billion In Market Value (cnbc.com) Posted by BeauHD on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:25PM from the going-going-gone dept. JustAnotherOldGuy writes: Facebook issued…

SEOUL (Reuters) - While a North Korean deadline for the United States to soften its stand on denuclearization talks passed uneventfully over the New Year, state media and propaganda efforts have been focusing on the prospect of a long confrontation with the United States. Optimism that two years of contacts…

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