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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

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Brian Moore's WWIII Propaganda Posters
War of the Future
Recycle, Reuse, Reduce
Plastic Too Valuable: Please Buy Less
#BigLie
Lies in the Media
Mental Illness
Stop the Stigma; Support Mental Health Awareness
This picture is of a cigarette standing upright with the words on the side of it saying, "how long can you live". On the other side of the cigarette are numbers increasing by 10 going up the cigarette.
How Long Can You Live?
This picture is imitating the Wizard of Oz movie, Dorthy, Lion, Scarecrow, and Tin Man are all standing there staring at the screen where Biden is telling them not to pay attention to the man behind the curtain. The curtain is opened by a dog and you can see Obama standing there pulling levers.
Wizard of Obama
Shows two men that appear as the devil talking about how Republicans have all sold their soul.
Devilish Views
Father and his daughter talking about COVID-19 increasing again and the daughter asks questions to see if her dad did anything to stop the spread and finds out that he has done nothing.
Why It Spreads
This picture shows a scientist presenting a poster that says, "what doesn't kill you mutates and tries again". There is a nervous woman who is looking outside of the window at a crowd of people who have trump signs.
Covid Catastrophe
Donald Trump ripping documents into pieces with pieces spelling out the word "evidence" above his head.
Evidence

I wonder if @SamuelLJackson knows his image is being used for a Blue Lives Matter billboard in Parma pic.twitter.com/L8beVt7o8p

— Mr. The Frog (@gladysfox) January 15, 2021
This is a picture of a billboard, on the billboard words write out "We Support: BLM" under these words is a picture of actor Samuel L. Jackson in a police officer uniform. Under the picture, words write out "Blue Lives Matter"
We Support: BLM Blue Lives Matter
Man wearing a button with the word Vax crossed out exclaims "I reject vaccines out of the love for my children". Standing to the right of the man are 3 chidlren with virus faces, the first virus face reads measles, the second mumps, and the third rubella.
I Reject Vaccines Out of the Love for my Children
Woman holding sign saying "I reject abortion extremism" to the right of her a message reads "Only 7% of millennials support abortion extremism made legal in New York State. Join us at Stuentsforlife.org #prolifegen"
I Reject Abortion Extremism
Another vintage world war one poster used to promote those who are sick to quarantine to keep those nine essential workers healthy to do their job
Quarantine in time save nine
Uncle Sam's boot crushing the image of a graph that represents the curve that Covid-19 cases have causes.
Help Uncle Sam Flatten The Curve!
Image represents a modern take on older war propaganda posters. The image shows three frontline workers during the pandemic, with the text "For YOU! For THEM! For US! Stay Inside, Victory Begins at Home
Stay Inside

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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