The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformation
    • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      From Wikipedia:

      Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.

      Propaganda isn’t always fake news, it can also be true stuff presented in a biased way.

      Similarly, fake news isn’t always propaganda. Some is just stuff spread by trolls to make fun of people.

        • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          Can it? I searched a bit and all the definitions I’ve found seem to be about swaying public opinion, not simple objective announcements.

          It does have a negative connotation even though it can be used for good, but I still don’t think purely objective messages like “a tsunami is coming, get to high ground” should count as propaganda.

            • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              I think that qualifies as propaganda too: its intention is to improve the public opinion of the Cohesion policy by clearing misconceptions.

              (About the “project” in the video… what the hell? I had to Google it because I wasn’t convinced it was a real thing. Just why?)