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Re:World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild g... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @11:19AM (#39617486)
To me, this looks more like snopes than propaganda. I mean, I'm sure it was snopes-in-service-of-the-war-effort, but it still seems different.

Or maybe we could call it negative propaganda ("don't believe that") rather than positive propaganda ("believe this").

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Re:World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild g... by trimethylpurine on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @12:56PM (#39618726)
>more like snopes than propaganda

Aren't those the same thing? An opinion piece about a set of facts is still an opinion. Snopes largely covers political topics. Combined, that's definition propaganda.

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Re:World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild g... by Aunche on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:26PM (#39619170)
Snopes at least seems to try to not have an agenda, even if they may be ideologically biased. The rumor clinics had an expressed interest of supporting America during WWII, so I'd consider it propaganda, but that shouldn't come with a negative connotation.
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Re:World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild g... by not_really on Thursday March 07, 2024 @09:19AM (#39629361)
Snopes absolutely does have an agenda.
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