• bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    Propaganda about the enemy usually doesn’t require altering the truth much. Propaganda about the own state of affairs is a completely different story.

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      9 hours ago

      That’s actually not true, with respect to altering the truth. Usually the quantity or quality of a single truth is heavily distorted, or outright fabricated. See Iraq’s WMD that never matetialized.

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          Very frequently propaganda relies on a single kernal of truth, and then changing the quantity, quality, or both of said truth. All it needs is some level of justification, then it can be molded like clay into whatever you need it to say.