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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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They just happened to find 50,000 ballots late last night. The USA is embarrassed by fools. Our Election Process is worse than that of third world countries!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
Trump Propaganda
This screenshot depicts an Instagram Story advertisement promoting the brand Abercrombie and Fitch and their clothing.
Propaganda in Daily Life
Endometrosis clinical trial
Endometriosis Clinical Trial
Bloom Nutrition Propaganda
Bloom Nutrition Propaganda
its a picture that says ""stop global warming"
Stop global warming
saying how the future isnt looking good for us
the future is in our hands
green cars
The Most Eco-Friendly Cars
tower 28
Tower 28 Beauty Instagram Post
@HERSHEY'S Kisses

Discover the Magic of the Harry Potter films with Limited Edition Hershey’s KISSES Milk Chocolate.

♬ Promoted Music - HERSHEY'S Kisses
hershey
Hershey's Kisses TikTok post
Billboard of a Heinz campaign
Heinz Ketchup Billboard
TV channel cited Jeremy Clarkson column in which he joked: ‘Hunger makes people eat their neighbours’
Russian propaganda claims Britain on brink of cannibalism due to Ukraine war sanctions
Kapernick Nike
Kapernick Nike
Child Hunger
Child Hunger
Romney's not the solution. He's the problem.
Obama attacking Romney
Silence kills democracy, but a free press talks.
Silence kills democracy, but a free press talks.
Not global cooling, not global warming, not climate change, climate disruption. it's called weather
Climate Change Meme

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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