Use this tag when the question is about whether some hoax or conspiracy theory is spread by the state propaganda of some country.
Questions tagged [propaganda]
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Were World War II scrap drives in the United States truly necessary for the procurement of raw materials?
I’ve been reading up on World War II scrap drive efforts in the United States, and am wondering if these (mostly) community-based efforts actually contributed enough raw materials to the war effort for them to actually be viable?
Meaning, I am…
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Did the myth of carrots improving eye sight begin as WWII propaganda?
I've often heard that the myth that eating carrots helps you see better at night (not to be confused with carrots helping with vitamin A deficiency) was started by the British in World War II, as propaganda to help conceal the fact that the RAF…
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Did the North Korean government ever say that Kim Jong-il never defecated?
Recently, someone claimed while talking to me that North Korea said that Kim Jong-il never needed to poop.
Is there any evidence that this claim is true? I have found an unsourced Guardian article, and while I generally trust them, this seems very…
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Did fake news on Facebook influence US elections in 2016?
I've encountered repeated references to fake news on Facebook influencing various elections. Example from a often quoted Facebook critique in Time Magazine:
As a result, when confronted with evidence that disinformation and
fake news had spread…
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Did North Korean missiles reach space in early 2022?
BBC News is hosting a number of photos from the North Korean news service, which depict a North Korean missile launch. Specifically these figures, which have this description:
Images released by the North Korean news agency show the missile launch,…
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Is this a genuine New York Times job ad for Russia Correspondent?
Is this a genuine New York Times job ad?
International Opportunities
Russia Correspondent
Moscow, Russia
Job Description
Vladimir Putin’s Russia remains one of the biggest stories in the world.
It sends out hit squads armed with nerve agents…
Keith McClary
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Is China placing advertisements seeking to influence the upcoming American mid-term elections?
As stated here and in numerous other places,
“We found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming
2018 election, coming up in November, against my administration,”
Trump said in a speech to members of the UN Security…
Mawg says reinstate Monica
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Have the Russian state media spread 21 theories about the Salisbury chemical attack?
The U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has recently said in his article (highlight mine):
Our allies have not been deterred by Russia’s usual tactics for avoiding pressure. Sure enough, the Kremlin began pumping out a deluge of lies almost as…
Be Brave Be Like Ukraine
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Was the "Do So" movement orchestrated by Cambridge Analytica and is it responsible for the results of the Trinidad and Tobago election?
The Great Hack is a documentary which, among other things, claims that SCL Group (which the now-infamous Cambridge Analytica is a subsidiary of) worked for the United National Congress (UNC) in Trinidad and Tobago and successfully helped them win…
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Is the recent media attention given to the USS Nimitz UFO incident a disinformation scheme?
There has been a lot of recent press about David Fravor's 2004 UFO sighting, an event also known as the USS Nimitz UFO incident. A quick Google search will verify that since December of 2017 (with another wave this week), the story has been covered…
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Was the bombed Barzah scientific research centre inspected by OPCW in Nov 2017?
Was the bombed Barzah scientific research centre the same as the " Barzah facility" in this 23 March 2018 OPCW report stating (section 11):
the second round
of inspections at the Barzah and Jamrayah facilities of the SSRC was concluded on
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Keith McClary
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Do we live in a post-truth era?
Apparently Oxford Dictionary's "word of the year" in 2016 was post-truth:
... relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are
less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and
personal belief.
Google is…
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Did the 1937 single issue magazine "Rising Tide" include the "Rules for Revolution"?
The New York Times 10 July 1970 article Communist ‘Rules’ For Revolt Viewed As Durable Fraud inaccurately states:
The earliest publication of the “rules” turned up in search was in The New World News of February, 1946. Many who reproduce the…
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Was there a secret plot by the US government to stage a false flag attack in Syria to blame Assad?
Strategic Culture Foundation alleges that there was a secret plot by Hillary Clinton and the US government to stage a false flag attack on Syria to blame Assad:
However, now, for the first time, Hersh has implicated Hillary Clinton directly in this…
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