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propaganda techniques

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  • Propaganda Techniques
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    Technique: Activate Strong Emotions

    Propaganda plays on human emotions—fear, hope, anger, frustration, sympathy—to direct audiences toward the desired goal. In the deepest sense, propaganda is a mind game — the skillful propagandist exploits people’s fears and prejudices. Successful propaga

    attack opponents

    Technique: Attack Opponents

    Propaganda can serve as a form of political and social warfare to identify and vilify opponents. It can call into question the legitimacy, credibility, accuracy, and even the character of one’s opponents and their ideas.

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    Technique: Respond to Audience Needs & Values

    Effective propaganda conveys messages, themes, and language that appeal directly, and many times exclusively, to specific and distinct groups within a population. Propagandists may appeal to you as a member of a family, or your racial or ethnic identity,

    simplify ideas

    Technique: Simplify Information

    Propaganda may use accurate and truthful information, or half-truths, opinions, lies and falsehoods. Successful propaganda tells simple stories that are familiar and trusted, often using metaphors, imagery and repetition to make them seem natural or "true

Country
Just Think of The Positives
This stuff fake
Moon Landing Faked?
Image of the moon landing being filmed on a movie set
Moon Landing
simulation
Is the Universe a simulation?
Yellowstone National Park is home to the world's largest and most active supervolcano, the Yellowstone Caldera.
Yellowstone's Volcano
This is an aerial shot of the Yellowstone supervolcano with an airplane flying above it.
Yellowstone Supervolcano
The image depicts a blueprint of a city landscape connecting to the idea of our life being simulated. This is what our world may actually look like since it can be coded and stripped down.
Virtual Cityscape
Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruption Damages
Yellowstone Supervolcano Kill Zone
NASA moon landing
Camilo
Sleep on This Conspiracy
Sleep on This Conspiracy
Election deniers
Stop the Steal
McDonalds Advert
The thing you want when you order salad
A pros and cons list between smoking a cigarette and smoking a Juul.
Juul vs. Cigarettes
Half of people who try cigarettes in college still smoke four years later
Truth campaign: quit smoking ad
"The Truth" Vaping advertisements

Don Lemon: “Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s, and 30s, and maybe 40s … Don’t shoot the messenger! I’m just saying what the facts are! Google it!"

WOW.

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— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) February 16, 2023
Do Politicians have a "Prime"?

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The Mind Over Media platform enables users to share examples of contemporary propaganda for educational purposes using crowdsourcing. Anyone can upload an example of propaganda and comment on it, considering its potential impact on public opinion. The translations and adaptations of this platform have been co-financed by European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology as part of the Pilot Project – Media Literacy For All Grant agreement no LC-00644630