Propaganda is not simply a tool of manipulation, and in fact a professor of communication suggests it may even be a necessary skill for any citizen to address global challenges. After carrying out ...

The situation happening with Russia and Ukraine has the world’s attention. And depending on where one sits in the world the narrative seen, heard, and believed can be radically different. Why is that ...

Scott Anthony, deputy head of research at the U.K. Science Museum Group, discusses 'The Story of British Propaganda Film,' which examines everything from overt propaganda in the U.K. tied to WWII to ...

Why are we so easily seduced by propaganda? Trace the history of the art of persuasion. Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies asks the question: why are we so easily seduced by propaganda? This film ...

A new advertisement put out by the National Rifle Association — which calls on conservatives to fight the left with a “clenched fist of truth” — has the Women’s March demanding an apology, activists ...

To most people, the word "propaganda" has negative connotations. It usually conjures up the image of a state bureaucracy, totalitarian in nature, running a highly-controlled information machine. We ...

A long time ago, when I was working on my Ph.D. research, I learned to use supercomputers to track the complex 3-D motions of gas blown into space by dying stars. Using big computers in this way was ...

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 ...

This article explores the propaganda techniques developed since the birth of the field in WWI. It advises how businesses can make the best use of these techniques—ethically and honestly—to grow and ...

In late October, I received an e-mail from “The PropOrNot Team,” which described itself as a “newly-formed independent team of computer scientists, statisticians, national security professionals, ...