How fake news is created glorifying women. A female government officer was rescued by male police officers and photos reveal it too. But paid media glorifies the lady while berating the ones who saved her.

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No, propaganda is false information meant to influence the masses with an idea through emotion, not facts, for a specific agenda.

Here's the definition: Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

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Propaganda

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented. Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies and the media can also produce propaganda.

In the twentieth century, the term propaganda has been associated with a manipulative approach, but propaganda historically was a neutral descriptive term. A wide range of materials and media are used for conveying propaganda messages, which changed as new technologies were invented, including paintings, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, films, radio shows, TV shows, and websites.

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No, propaganda is false information meant to influence people emotionally, without presenting any facts, for a specific agenda.

Definition:

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

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Propaganda

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented. Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies and the media can also produce propaganda.

In the twentieth century, the term propaganda has been associated with a manipulative approach, but propaganda historically was a neutral descriptive term. A wide range of materials and media are used for conveying propaganda messages, which changed as new technologies were invented, including paintings, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, films, radio shows, TV shows, and websites.

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No, propaganda is false or manipulated information, concealing important facts and meant to influence people emotionally, rather than rationally, for a specific agenda.

Definition:

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

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Propaganda

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented. Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies and the media can also produce propaganda.

In the twentieth century, the term propaganda has been associated with a manipulative approach, but propaganda historically was a neutral descriptive term. A wide range of materials and media are used for conveying propaganda messages, which changed as new technologies were invented, including paintings, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, films, radio shows, TV shows, and websites.

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What makes propaganda propaganda isn't its truth or falsity, but its intent to influence opinion.

You can use the same true information to influence opinion one way or another just by manipulating that information.

You're statements are just not true. Manipulating the information and concealing certain facts doesn't make that information true, it makes it false.

Public opinion can be influenced with true, objective information that represents all the facts but that doesn't make it propaganda. Propaganda conceals certain facts to emotionally manipulate an audience for an agenda. Presenting a skewed image that is out-of-context to influence public opinion is deceptive. If all the facts are not presented to the public, then it's disinformation.

Your example just proved my argument. The picture clearly falsifies information by concealing certain facts to deceptively influence public opinion. I stated earlier that manipulating information to influence public opinion is false information, which is propaganda.

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The picture clearly falsifies information

Nothing is false in the photo. You look at the photo on the left: a man really did point a gun at another man's head. You look at the photo on the right: a man really did give another man water. That really happened. Neither picture depicts something that did not happen.

Here is an example of a falsified photo:
https://i.redd.it/i1f0aw8g6ifz.jpg

False information was added to the photo. It's not just misleading; it's flat-out false. Those two people did not appear together at that time. It did not happen.

That's how I see it, anyway. It really just depends on whether you consider a lie of omission to be the same as a lie. Although I agree the ends are the same (both can lead people to hold beliefs that are not true), the means are different. And I just think it's important to differentiate between means even if the ends are the same.

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Nothing is false in the photo. You look at the photo on the left: a man really did point a gun at another man's head. You look at the photo on the right: a man really did give another man water. That really happened. Neither picture depicts something that did not happen.

In your previous example, the left and right photo are depicting only part of the story. If the whole image was shown to the public then the information wouldn't be false. Separately, they both clearly show skewed perspectives and the media can present either one to mislead the public. That's the very definition of propaganda.

Presenting fabricated information to the public and concealing certain facts to intentionally manipulate public opinion is essentially the same, both means use disinformation to deceptively promote an agenda and influence public opinion. Manipulating the facts to deceive the public is still false information.

False information was added to the photo. It's not just misleading; it's flat-out false. Those two people did not appear together at that time. It did not happen.

The falsity of an image isn't only based on if it's entirely fabricated. An authentic image can be altered to manipulate specific details and portray an event out of context to promote a lie. False information isn't just defined as information that's completely made up. Manipulated information, like an altered image, is also false information.

It really just depends on whether you consider a lie of omission to be the same as a lie

Yes, I think its safe to say that omitting facts to deceptively influence the public into believing something untrue is the same as lying. I don't doubt that at all.

Influencing public opinion with true, objective information is not the same as using skewed information to deceptively influence public opinion. One begins with influencing people with actual facts and results in a well-informed public who are capable of rational thought and self-expression. Propaganda begins with manipulated, deceptive information and results in public opinion being emotionally influenced so they can be persuaded to support a specific agenda.

My argument was simply that presenting true, objective information in its entirety to honestly influence public opinion isn't the same as propaganda, which conceals or fabricates information to deceptively influence public opinion by playing on people's emotions. Agree to disagree.

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Your examples had nothing to do with what I was talking about. You are wrong so swallow your pride and admit that. If you can't then I can't help you. Have a nice life.

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The term was used in a blanket way, much like nazi or alt-right is now. The reporting deliberately made no distinction between invented stories that criticised Clinton and anything else that criticised Clinton. Both nazi and alt-right have very specific meanings. The reporting uses them as a catch all insult, lumping together any group, person or idea that disagrees with the left. Even when that person broadly agrees with the left, partly agrees or supports ideas that the left is supposed to promote.

Trumps followers took control of the term because it perfectly described the tactics the media used to attack them. Another example of that projection I mentioned, the media reporting about fake news to distract from their own actions. Russia for example, always was untrue but it was deliberately pushed as news despite the complete lack of evidence. It is quintessential fake news.

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Kinda. Trump wasn't the first to misappropriate the term. A college professor compiled a list of "fake news" websites, which not only included actual fake news websites, but also sites that simply tend to sensationalize. These sites were basically put into three categories: actual fake news, over-sensationalized (to the point of being propaganda) news, and simply having misleading headlines.

There were some smaller news sites that appeared on the list only because of bias or sensationalized headlines, but the simple fact that they were on this list was used by the mainstream media as a reason to completely disregard all of their material as being literally fake. (Something that, as we've seen on this sub, the mainstream media never does themselves, right?)

So the mainstream media accused these smaller news organizations of being "fake"--whether by making stuff up, over-sensationalizing, or simply being biased--when they do the exact same things themselves. The mainstream media sensationalizes and displays bias just as much as anyone else, so their accusations come across as ironic and show their lack of self-awareness. "Fake news," then, became a term used to call out a person's or an organization's inability to report something objectively.

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How fake news is created glorifying women. A female government officer was rescued by male police officers and photos reveal it too. But paid media glorifies the lady while berating the ones who saved her.

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