![]() Why would anyone believe that the US government - or any government - could be an arbiter of what is true and what is false? A brief trip down recent memory lane ought to disabuse people of such faith.ĭwight Eisenhower lied about U-2 flights over Russia John F. Twitter The Nazi propaganda effort was headed by Dr. Nina Jankowicz will head the new office within the Department of Homeland Security. The Daily Mail reported Jankowicz “shared misleading tweets about COVID-19 masks, claimed Trump presidency would ’embolden ISIS’ and praised British spy behind the debunked Russian dossier.” Didn’t Jankowicz spread disinformation about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which she said was a product of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign? Wasn’t it Jankowicz who joined fellow Democrats in claiming Trump “colluded” with Russia to help him win the presidency? The new office will be headed by Nina Jankowicz, who styles herself as Mary Poppins on TikTok (a social-media platform owned by the Chinese Communist government, a font of disinformation, which should be alarming). Now comes the announcement of a new office within the Department of Homeland Security to police “disinformation” and “misinformation.” Some critics are comparing it to the fictitious “Ministry of Truth” in George Orwell’s novel “1984.” Josef Stalin successfully used propaganda during the 1940s. He and his successors used jamming devices to keep information from Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty from reaching Russian ears. In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin employed newspapers, Pravda and Izvestia, and TV “news” shows to lie to his people. Most soldiers who listened on their radios treated it as entertainment. American forces could listen to several women they called “Tokyo Rose,” whose Japanese propaganda was aimed at demoralizing troops by telling them they were losing the war. The Nazi propaganda effort was headed by Joseph Goebbels, to whom the term “The Big Lie,” meaning if one tells a lie often enough people will come to believe it is true, has been attributed. Germany and Japan had their own propaganda machines to advance an evil agenda. During World War II, American propaganda was considered a necessary tool in the pursuit of victory in a moral cause. North Korea bans tight jeans, dyed hair, other trends with ‘capitalist flair’: reportĪs with many things, propaganda can be used for good or for ill, depending on who dispenses it. Social media is creating radicalized killers - and our government is allowing it Putin’s state TV propagandist says ‘World War III has already begun’Ĭhina’s propaganda ranks highly on Google, YouTube searches: study
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