Comment on Why is propaganda frowned upon?
nodsocket@lemmy.world 11 months agoYou can still be manipulative without lying, by simply choosing the right facts.
Comment on Why is propaganda frowned upon?
nodsocket@lemmy.world 11 months agoYou can still be manipulative without lying, by simply choosing the right facts.
meco03211@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not about choosing the right facts. It’s about how the information is presented. One such case I can recall involved covid propaganda. A qultist anti-vaxxer I know posted an article with the headline (paraphrasing) “70% of covid deaths in hospital were vaccinated”. Turns out that was true. Except the article was presented as if this was evidence of the vaccine failing. Unfortunately for the qultist idiot, that’s an expected outcome. The area it happened in, had pushed hard for early vaccination. The population was like 90% vaccinated and vulnerable people were targeted early. Quite the opposite to the tone of the article, reality is that the vaccine was massively effective. But the facts were presented with an ignorant and incorrect interpretation.
That’s how facts can be used in propaganda.