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Re:The End of Political Cartoons at The New York Times by dsfyu404ed on Monday June 10, 2019 @07:24PM (#20151837)
>I wager that it is pretty trivial to get most people to believe in anything and especially easy to make people think fringe opinions are actually widespread and commonplace.

I'd wager you can find plenty of examples of that on HN.

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Re:The End of Political Cartoons at The New York Times by hnick on Monday June 10, 2019 @10:25PM (#20152607)
It's been linked before on HN but The Century of the Self is very eye-opening in this regard and available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

Apparently the very first act of Public Relations was in renaming Propaganda to Public Relations.

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