Propaganda

The CEO of the company that publishes the newspaper Mandiner has been dismissed on instructions by the finance minister, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said on Facebook on Friday. “Starting from today, all funding for this lying propaganda newspaper will be stopped,” Magyar added. Finance Minister András Kármán said on Facebook after…

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says people protesting data centers are falling prey to foreign influence and should embrace the massive facilities...Read More

NTV has distanced itself from the viral poster claiming Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna survived an assassination attempt along Mbagathi Road.  The media house dismissed the claims in a statement issued on September 2, describing the poster as fabricated and urging the public not to share it. “FAKE NEWS ALERT! Please…

This fall, 54 million K-12 students are headed back to the classroom for another year of lessons in all the classic subjects: math, English, history, biology. But there’s another subject that’s been sneaking into school curricula: plastics. A new report from the nonprofit Plastic Pollution Coalition documents the many ways…

Utah puts up ads promoting nuclear energy. Public interest groups say it's propaganda Public interest groups have filed a formal complaint against advertising by the state of Utah promoting nuclear energy development. They argue it amounts to propaganda. Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news now. Utah wants to be…

There is a strange thing happening in Ghana’s entertainment industry. We have become very good at making noise about our artists, but increasingly poor at managing the reputations we claim to be protecting. In some corners of the music industry, public relations has become a competition over who can clap…

Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu, has described as propaganda the opposition campaign claiming that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not impacted the lives of Nigerians in the last three years. Governor Aliyu said this on Sunday during a One-Day National Symposium with the theme “Enhanced Political Participation and Social Justice…

MANILA, Philippines — The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and other relevant government agencies were urged to strengthen efforts to combat Chinese propaganda that spreads misinformation online regarding the West Philippine Sea (WPS). House impeachment adviser and prosecution panel spokesperson Robert Ace Barbers made the pronouncement in reference to a specific…

The Saudi-led Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) launched the Peace Journalists initiative in Somalia (Photo: SPA) The Saudi-led Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) launched the Peace Journalists initiative in Somalia – a specialized training program aimed at harnessing the skills of media professionals to combat disinformation and extremist…

Dialogue With Nigeria  By Akin Oshuntokun Going into reelection campaigns, incumbents are commonly burdened with propaganda deficit. Primarily, it has to do with the fact that opponents are the aspirational candidates running on the promises of meeting all public expectations. Whereas incumbents run on their records in office which are…