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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by ljm on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:32PM (#21404559)
The difficulty is that we once used propaganda in war time, because we needed it. The problem now is that you don’t know who is doing it, and for what.

And propaganda back then wasn’t so clear cut. We were allied with Russia and at the end their population was truly decimated.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by zobzu on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:52PM (#21404662)
nowadays most of us have no idea what is propaganda and what isn't. heck sometimes you eventually research it and realize stuff you believed was true for decades because you were just told so by some authoritative source (like "TV" or what not really), turn out, is between misleading to flat out wrong. Note that I'm not even thinking about this in terms of politics. It seems to be the case for so many different things, sometimes due to ignorance, sometimes malice.
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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by CobrastanJorji on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:22PM (#21410458)
My favorite example is "eating carrots improves your vision." Came from WW2 propaganda trying to hide the existence of radar.
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