When you imagine media in a dictatorship, you probably think of something dull and gray. Maybe a Soviet state-television program, extolling the annual harvest. Perhaps a smudgy newspaper photograph of Chairman Mao or General Pinochet, surrounded by blocks of turgid prose.

Russian propaganda in the first half of November is expected to focus on campaigns aimed at discrediting EU and US sanctions, as well as issuing new nuclear threats toward Western countries, according to the Center for Countering Disinformation.

Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. ZUMAPRESS.com On my very first day as a US congressman in January, I walked into my office on Capitol Hill and learned a startling ...

To the extent you can define the terms of a debate, you can influence the outcome of that debate. The story of Epicurus illustrates the point. A Greek sage and teacher of the Hellenistic Age, Epicurus urged his followers to focus on the basic issue of how to live a good and contented life.

The ratio between the “far right” and “far left” remained about the same (between 1.2:1 to around 1.5:1) until the 2021-25 period, when it popped up to 3.62:1. In other words, during the last five years, a conservative was nearly four times more likely to be characterized as “far right” than a liberal was to be called “far left.”

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

At a recent academic conference, Tom Huckin put a couple of dozen copies of his syllabus on a table. He didn’t anticipate much interest. Still, he was proud of his new course, “Contemporary Propaganda,” and thought a few other people might appreciate ...

The attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, now the leading candidate to become the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential nominee after President Joe Biden’s historic decision to exit his race for re-election, have begun, as one expert on ...

Propaganda in America is incredibly easy for two reasons. First, most citizens think that it doesn't happen here, which is one of the first conditions for successful propaganda. Second, the American media is biased, stupid and lazy, and anyone who exploits ...