The new Guide to Online Propagandists from my organization, the Counter Extremism Project, highlights more than a dozen radical propagandists whose hateful rhetoric remains freely accessible across social media platforms.
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But propagandists like Mr. Cruz are not interested in conversation.
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He became one of the group's chief propagandists and recruiters.
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He opens the White House press corps to blatant propagandists.
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Russian propagandists regularly and gleefully recite articles about "Russia's menace".
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Authoritarian propagandists are attempting to convey power by defining reality.
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Profiteers and propagandists were going gangbusters on Facebook and Twitter.
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It's true that the propagandists' speech would have been curtailed.
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Duterte's spokesman had called that "outrageous interference" by "foreign propagandists".
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But that means ceding the public sphere to dissemblers and propagandists.
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So in 2015 the propagandists decided to lift the ban again.
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Domestic ideologues adopt the manipulative distribution tactics used by foreign propagandists.
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His death will be a boon for IRGC propagandists and recruiters.
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"We've seen a few times propagandists have learned from hackers," he said.
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Russian propagandists used Facebook to sway the 2016 American election, perhaps decisively.
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And the propagandists and the politicians found strategies to deal with it.
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ISIS propagandists have left the population in no doubt of what happened.
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So it recruited Koreans who had served as propagandists under the Japanese.
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Get rid of pundits who are nothing more than partisan propagandists. 85033.
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Every province, county and state-owned enterprise also has its own propagandists.
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And strange events were happening there, set into motion by Russian propagandists.
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Describing China's growing global clout has long been a problem for propagandists.
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But this case was made by Soviet propagandists, not American presidential candidates.
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They have written truth despite the thousands of propagandists who plague them.
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Rather, propagandists hope to create a world where lies no longer matter.
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Neither liberals, nor moderates, nor conservatives alone can defeat the new propagandists.
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For political provocateurs at home and propagandists abroad, this vacuum is inviting.
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Moves like that show that Facebook is grappling with its most manipulative propagandists.
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Advertisers and political propagandists know that, and so does every variety of preacher.
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So propagandists are negotiating a new terrain where big ideas don't matter anymore.
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We're not just talking about fake news writers and Russian propagandists for once.
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Before there was fake news, the Lost Cause propagandists were creating fake history.
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There was great concern about distracted and gullible listeners being susceptible to propagandists.
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America's conservative propagandists at some point will have a similar encounter with reality.
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Here, propagandists are reminding the public of the president's commitment to the issue.
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Likewise, Congress can extend FARA regulations to foreign propagandists using American media platforms.
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The Taliban's spinmeisters and propagandists would spin the peace deal as American defeat.
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Foreign propagandists adeptly understood the appeal of Trump's reflexive jingoism and exploited it.
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They are anybody who willfully degrades the public square — the propagandists and demagogues.
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America's "impudent behaviour" would have "nuclear consequences", said one of Mr Putin's chief propagandists.
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The retreat of that liberal democratic idea allows Russian propagandists to claim a victory.
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The sickening thing is that this is exactly what Trump propagandists want to happen.
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When Russian propagandists started disrupting elections in the US and Europe, Trump didn't object.
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Then as now, propagandists used this medium to speak directly to the American public.
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And tell the robots and the arguers and the propagandists that they cannot win.
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Poland, these propagandists have claimed, has a choice between the United States and China.
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However, anti-vaccine propagandists have made vaccinations part of their culture war on science.
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Now some of those same propagandists want you to believe there's nothing to see here.
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These organizations have always existed: They're old-school propagandists with new-school, tech-savvy reach.
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And you can't help ... what would Himmler, would the actual propagandists have done with this?
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Some nationalist rappers have zealously embraced their role as propagandists; some even call for violence.
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It is true that government propagandists have worked hard to whip up this latest storm.
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This means police need to be able to proactively monitor potential terrorists, recruiters, and propagandists.
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TROLLS, bots, hackers, propagandists and provocateurs of Russian origin have lately descended on Western democracies.
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Students learning about world history also learned about how propagandists could manipulate the historical narrative.
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Russian propagandists slipped through Facebook's advertising safeguards to try to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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Orlando also offers ISIS propagandists a new target of emphasis: LGBTQ people around the world.
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Ms. Usedom had no idea that her account had been commandeered by anti-Clinton propagandists.
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"Hoda was right in the mix for English language propagandists," said terror researcher Seamus Hughes.
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Mr Rooney and Mr Gowdy are not Russian propagandists, so why all the what-about-ism?
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Islamic State propagandists are reportedly trying to exploit social media app TikTok as a recruiting tool.
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Russian propagandists have long argued that the West's declining fertility rate is evidence of its decline.
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Propagandists are interested in moving the public to a particular position to achieve a particular outcome.
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They deleted files including battlefield video, changed passwords and blocked ISIS propagandists from accessing their accounts.
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According to researchers at Harvard University, propagandists help churn out 488m pro-government tweets a year.
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The same data collection tools are available to foreign propagandists as are available to legitimate advertisers.
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Party propagandists similarly highlighted the sufferings of Native Americans and Stalin's slaughter in the Soviet Union.
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Dubbed criminals and vagrants by propagandists, the colorful above masks the reality of the city's underclass.
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The propagandists of ISIS use American meme generators to lure potential fighters from Europe and elsewhere.
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It then spread like wildfire among lazy journalists and Russia's network of fools, knaves and propagandists.
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Mr Xi is building on a long tradition among the Communist Party's propagandists of claiming world firsts.
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Far right propagandists were sharing links to the mainstream media only to refute and distort their reporting.
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As masterful propagandists IS knows that mothers could deal the organisation a death blow, says Mr Koehler.
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Successful propagandists have always understood one basic truth: Propaganda works best when it exploits pre-existing prejudices.
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"Lest these foreign propagandists, masquerading as human right protectors, forget, allegations are not proof," Mr. Panelo said.
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Using Awlaki and YouTube as an example, all tech firms must deny these virulent propagandists a platform.
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Steve King, R-Iowa, who have become propagandists for foreign right-wing "anti-globalists" like Vladimir Putin.
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From the outset, the State Department recognised that volunteer-run groups would be more effective than government propagandists.
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They could be doing their jobs completely in earnest and still be functioning as cover for the propagandists.
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No matter what accounts for the recent success of main melody works, official propagandists can take it easy.
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The Communist Party's propagandists milked the occasion for every drop of patriotic feel-goodery that it could produce.
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How many times do the "apocalyptics" have to be discredited before the media calls them out as "propagandists"?
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Second, terrorists, propagandists and purveyors of fabricated news are taking advantage of the online space to undermine democracy.
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Today's American propagandists and foreign interlopers play to popular disaffection irresponsibly inflamed by all forms of our media.
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Facebook licking stamps on old fashioned postcards addressed to potential Russian propagandists isn't going to solve their problem.
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Propagandists immediately christened them "the Baby Bombers," despite the fact that they were 25, 2306, and 2312, respectively.
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Smarsh: The term "elite" is successfully leveraged by conservative propagandists seeking to cast coastal liberals as condescending snobs.
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It's well understood that those who speak loudest (advertisers and propagandists) will have great influence over our beliefs.
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Like Trump, they listened to propagandists in the right-wing press and fell into a hole of irrelevance.
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He ignored the inaccurate daily torrent of attacks from Trump and his propagandists in conservative media for two years.
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The way the propagandists tell it, Russia is surrounded by enemies and can only be defended by Mr Putin.
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Instead, Russia's enthusiastic propagandists came up with all kinds of theories -- from the faintly plausible to the gruesomely bizarre.
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China's Communist Party propagandists put out the animated video above, a mash-up of party slogans and Chinese rap.
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Facebook is launching a new investigation into whether Russian propagandists coordinated a disinformation campaign around the 2016 Brexit vote.
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China's propagandists also know that Marxism-Leninism doesn't have the pulling power of kung fu or kung pao chicken.
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Some 4% killed themselves while committing mass casualty attacks against civilians, and 6% died as propagandists embedded with brigades.
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Propagandists have used the news to try to demystify President Xi, says Chang Jiang of Renmin University in Beijing.
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But they are also easy targets for cash-flush propagandists, while acting as gatekeepers for cash-poor media organizations.
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The regime's propagandists brazenly referred to former President Barack Obama as a "wicked black monkey" during his second term.
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It prefers hacks and propagandists, the people Mankiw famously called "charlatans and cranks," whose only idea is tax cuts.
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It prefers hacks and propagandists, the people Mankiw famously called "charlatans and cranks," whose only idea is tax cuts.
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Soviet propagandists said the breakthrough proved that their communist social model was superior to the capitalism of the West.
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ISIS encouraged women to join the caliphate with their families, as mothers, teachers and propagandists, rather than as combatants.
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One expert in the work of such propagandists is former World Chess Champion and Russian political dissident Garry Kasparov.
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The propagandists clearly want the audience to cheer for the upright party officials in the show who battle corruption.
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The administration has been escalating its anti-homeless rhetoric over the summer, encouraged by the propagandists at Fox News.
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Facebook admitted on Wednesday that it discovered evidence suggesting Russian propagandists purchased ads on its platform during the 2016 election.
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BuzzFeed recently reported that Facebook Groups nudge people toward conspiratorial content, creating a built-in audience for spammers and propagandists.
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We must admit, however grudgingly, that the Islamic State's propagandists are now as adept at social media as we are.
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But in many liberal eyes, avant-garde conservatives have morphed from countercultural rebels to government apologists—or worse, regime propagandists.
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Shot: On the one hand, journalists want to avoid serving as conduits for propagandists trying to influence an electoral outcome.
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Last year the party's own disciplinary body accused official propagandists of failing to meet the demands of the digital era.
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At worst, Trump and those around him may already be becoming the most effective propagandists Islamic State could dream of.
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In Germany, Russian propagandists cooked up a media frenzy over a bogus sexual assault to foment discord over Muslim immigration.
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In the mind of propagandists, it served to inflame anti-Western sentiment in Russia and anti-refugee sentiment in Germany.
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Propagandists don't want to wreak havoc in Russia, and that's enough to keep the severed-head story off TV screens.
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We set the table for propagandists and serve them high-protein meals…then we wring our hands over their growth.
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The real horror for me is watching people who I thought were principled conservatives become sycophantic propagandists for this guy.
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Of course, algorithm-driven mass manipulation is only one weapon in propagandists' arsenals, alongside television and ideologically slanted talk radio.
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During the 2016 election, Russian propagandists purchased more than $85033,000 in ads from Facebook, the company said late last year.
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They're the tools of propagandists, xenophobes, and oppressors, and tend to stick around through the ages like a bad smell.
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Fake news is only fake if you realize its fakeness — which is why it's such an effective concept for propagandists.
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As the group evolved, its propagandists surpassed and humiliated their bitter rivals in al Qaeda by placing a premium on innovation.
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In Asia, Buddhist monks have been in the front line of bloody inter-communal conflicts, as propagandists or even as participants.
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The propagandists are nicknamed the Fifty Cent Party because they're reportedly paid 50 cents (US$0.08) for every message they post.
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In Ukraine, many at the State Department wanted to do battle with every lie that was churned out by Putin's propagandists.
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The arsenal of bots, propagandists and intelligence agents they deployed was equivalent to that assembled for the allies' invasion of Normandy.
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FARA has not gotten so much attention since it was passed in 1938 and used to go after pro-Nazi propagandists.
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The report adds that in 2017 Russian propagandists shifted focus to Instagram after media coverage of their Facebook and Twitter operations.
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The report dismantled claims by Trump and conservative propagandists that the Russia investigation was a "Deep State" plot to destroy him.
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Party propagandists insist that China without Communist rule would descend once more into chaos and fall prey to hostile foreign powers.
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And government propagandists appear to be working in overdrive to control the region's image—often posting TikTok videos of their own.
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But while Trump propagandists and their allies in fake media work to craft an alternative, reality keeps getting in the way.
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It would not surprise me if foreign propagandists decided to take to social media to advance Warren's candidacy and hurt Biden's.
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But it's also because the indie sensibility was in many ways more homogeneous and less adventurous than its propagandists liked to believe.
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Instead, it creates a cat-and-mouse game, with propagandists looking for new ways to evade automatic moderators, and tech companies adapting.
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Without action, Google will remain a tool for propagandists to take advantage of national tragedies to deepen political divisions and obscure reality.
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Some of that was coming from conservative talk radio hosts, who are not propagandists, who are not working for a foreign government.
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"That means we've become political activists in a sense and, some could argue, propagandists — and there's some merit to that," Logan said.
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The propagandists seem to understand the link between certain forms of mental illness and susceptibility to mass violence, even if we don't.
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The rhetoric of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propagandists has taken the clear stance that Poland is a small and insignificant country.
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According to Clarke, ISIS propagandists are doubling down in part because they've never really backed away from a claim of responsibility before.
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Targeted advertising provides tools for political advertisers and propagandists to micro-segment audiences in ways that inhibit a common understanding of reality.
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Yes, we must carefully weigh the risks — physical risks and the danger of being used by propagandists — and work to mitigate them.
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So why is this work necessary in a world dogged by the digitals illusions of authoritarian propagandists like the 45th US president?
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Many ISIS propagandists and sympathizers manage multiple Twitter accounts, and are often able to set up new accounts minutes after being suspended.
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The exhibit - "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda" - provides insights into how propagandists seek to influence politics around the world.
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And it has indicted Russian propagandists for the misinformation campaigns they spread on social media that sought to dampen support for Mrs.
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In recent months, Twitter has come under fire as ISIS propagandists used the platform to promote their cause and recruit would-be militants.
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They badly need independent news in their own language as China's propagandists buy up the rest of the world's commercial Chinese-language outlets.
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"The propagandists would have us pin our hopes on one man – a blasphemous, self-styled savior who is willing to kill," she said.
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Another revelation from the documents is that the online propagandists are largely comprised of government employees engaging in propaganda as an extracurricular activity.
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That loophole has allowed propagandists to simply shift their efforts to other existing pages after Facebook closes down one arm of their operation.
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It's ironic that the Trump administration would accuse Russia of spreading false information considering the debt the president seemingly owes to Russian propagandists.
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Its propagandists do all they can to fizz up adulation of the monarchy; for example, by building colossal statues of seven Thai kings.
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Citizens struggle to make sense of confusing messages entering the public sphere from propagandists, provocateurs, corporatists, political activists and other self-serving sources.
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They came in as academics, military personnel, scientists, athletes, filmmakers, farmers and even some convicts; they served as spies, cartographers, forgers and propagandists.
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This combination of text and sharing, along with a huge user base, has made Instagram much more like Facebook—and irresistible to propagandists.
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Propagandists and media and public relations professionals have sought to shape our worldview and manipulate our emotions through images throughout the 20th century.
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The propagandists appear to be targeting university students who oppose India's new Citizenship Amendment Act, which is widely perceived to be anti-Muslim.
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Not just homemakers and housewives, but combatants and propagandists, ISIS recognized that women had a role to play in their state-building project.
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Facebook, which admitted that it sold ads to Russian propagandists, was formally invited today to testify in front of Congress in early November.
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The site's own data indicates posts from suspected Russian propagandists reached up to 126 million users in the two years before the 2016 elections.
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This week, it carried through on part of that promise, by removing a number of accounts it suspected of being bots and/or propagandists.
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As a recent WIRED feature reported, Twitter is often still the "main engine" for ISIS propagandists to promote their cause and find new recruits.
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And last month, the company disclosed it had also sold more than $100,000 worth of political ads to Russian propagandists with the same goals.
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For an American president to suggest that his own country is as murderous as Russia is unprecedented, wrong and a gift to Moscow's propagandists.
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Yet the glowing contemporary accounts owed much to Saladin's tame and prolific propagandists—courtiers, chroniclers and muftis who were rewarded handsomely for their efforts.
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It's also why social media surveillance is practiced widely by police, political operators, employers, propagandists, insurance companies, marketers and, yes, social workers as well.
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High-tech sexual slander has not replaced the old-fashioned sort, which remains rife wherever politicians and their propagandists can get away with it.
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Of course, fabricators, deceivers and propagandists should be identified and criticized, but that needs to be done with counter-messaging from voices of reason.
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Panelo described the U.N. experts as "foreign propagandists masquerading as human rights protectors", and said their comments were "an outrageous interference on Philippine sovereignty".
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That's what makes them creative, but it also puts them on the wrong side of the battle against trolls, propagandists, and con artists online.
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The C.I.A. learned about those meetings just as it was beginning to grapple with Russian hackers and propagandists trying to manipulate the presidential race.
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If Facebook continues to allow their platform to be abused by propagandists, they will be giving Trump a giant advantage in the 2020 campaign.
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Islamic State propagandists considered Palmyra a bonanza for promoting their vision of a strictly religious caliphate devoid of homage to other cultures or religions.
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But if investigators really want to get to the bottom of how foreign propagandists tried to sway voters, the answer may lie within Facebook's servers.
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Having freedom of the press means nothing if you barely have a press at all, and what's available is the product of deep-pocketed propagandists.
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The lack of credible independent news left the field open to social-media propagandists, which helped to inflame unrest over the past year, he says.
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Russian internet propagandists tried to influence American voters ahead of the 2018 midterms, according to a new report compiled by the top US intelligence official.
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Since this is the goal of terrorist recruiters and propagandists alike, the method could be on the front lines of algorithmic filtering across social networks.
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Fallon's apolitical shtick increasingly makes him an outlier among his peers, many of whom are less comics than propagandists — liberal "explanatory journalists" with laugh lines.
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But he wonders if some of those conspiracy-minded voters hadn't been unknowingly influenced by Russian propagandists who were marshalling the Clinton campaign's own analytics.
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The Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax has once again brought the double standard of the liberal media and their role as propagandists into full view.
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So the fact that Congress resurrected the PTC is a good thing, regardless of what fossil fuel industry-funded propagandists would like us to believe.
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Reporters in democratic nations like Britain and France are stunned; authoritarian propagandists are downright giddy that America's political system could collapse into chaos so easily.
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It makes it more difficult for propagandists to do their work, and breaks up the power of moguls who answer to no one but themselves.
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The built-in incentives on Twitter and Facebook reward speed over depth, hot takes over facts and seasoned propagandists over well-meaning analyzers of news.
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With huge numbers of people around the world reading material about ISIS or by ISIS propagandists, law enforcement cannot really predict who will become violent.
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Trump has previously been reluctant to criticize China over its anti-democratic crackdown and now Chinese propagandists are using his own words against the protesters.
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And it turns out that those who have proven most capable of this come from a universe of charlatans: fake news purveyors, propagandists, and scammers.
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While they lived under ISIS rule, state preachers and propagandists doubtless argued that the terror group would resurge to defeat its enemies against all odds.
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And the Kree aliens, some of whom Captain Marvel revealed to be warmongers and propagandists, seem to be more nefarious and threatening that we thought.
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When asked why people are opting out of vaccines, the New York city health department said anti-vaccine propagandists are distributing misinformation in the community.
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The contrast between seeing (then) box office megastar Jim Carrey on a show that looked like it was made by propagandists from some dictatorship was palpable.
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IS's propagandists even pre-empted the fall with the launch of a new English title, Rumiya, deferring the end-of-days battle until IS reaches Rome.
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And thanks to Big Tech, a vast and highly influential new information ecosystem is now wildly susceptible to hijacking by liars and propagandists for political purposes.
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In recent months this has led to concern that propagandists will use the technology to generate videos in which political figures appear to say compromising things.
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Allegations that Russian propagandists used the platform to interfere with the presidential election were initially described by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's boss, as a "pretty crazy idea".
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After all, NRA propagandists routinely claim some bogeyman—communists, zombies, "violent anti-second-amendment extremists" or New York's governor—threaten NRA members and their constitutional rights.
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For example, Russian publications operated by propagandists who write fake U.S. news and distribute it as if they're legitimate American publications will have diminished online reach.
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Eager jihadist propagandists predicted that a final victory over the "crusader armies" would usher in the day of judgment and give birth to a new world.
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"Facebook hasn't led to empowerment of the average citizen, but empowerment of professional propagandists, fringe elements and conspiracy theorists," said Mr. Heydarian, the Philippines political analyst.
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I think we can find ways to allow targeted advertising done by Chanel or the NBA, and cut out the nefarious content pushed by Russian propagandists.
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In the book, Mr. Shen demolishes the myth that China and North Korea were tightly allied, "as close as lips to teeth," as China's propagandists insisted.
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The letter comes weeks after Facebook admitted that Russian propagandists spent more than $100,000 on Facebook ads in an effort to influence the 2016 presidential race.
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Soviet ideologues and propagandists mostly stayed away from the idea, preferring to blame the machinations of class enemies, foreign capitalists and imperialists for their country's problems.
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Yet even Rappler has been attacked by Duterte propagandists, while the president himself singled out the site during the same address, citing false foreign ownership allegations.
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On Sunday's "Reliable Sources" telecast, I talked about patriotism, because I already see propagandists trying to name and shame people who doubt Trump's claims about Iran.
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To bolster their argument, Atomwaffen propagandists relied on the work of James Mason, a Denver-based, old-school neo-Nazi who used to correspond with Charles Manson.
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Facebook played a vital role in the outcome of the 2016 election—ask any digital director on one of the presidential campaigns, or maybe some Russian propagandists.
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Its propagandists were kept busier than usual last week, hammering out tirades against economic sanctions imposed by the UN in response to Mr Kim's unrelenting missile tests.
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But as keen as Albright's insights have been, they came a little too late, years after propagandists sitting in St. Petersburg began messing with the US election.
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Propagandists can then manually craft messages to influence them, deploying covert provocateurs, either humans or automated computer programs known as bots, in hopes of altering their behavior.
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If my data is already being hawked to marketing firms, third-party apps, and political propagandists without my knowledge, I reasoned, why not benefit from the racket?
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For the last two days, U.S. lawmakers have scrutinized Facebook over the Russian propagandists that used its platform to spread politically divisive content during the 2016 election.
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People who believe Trump is saving the country think this debate is indicative of liberal media bias, and that "anti-Trump" media outlets are the true propagandists.
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The company's troubles came to a head during the Presidential election of 2016, when propagandists used the site to spread misinformation that helped turn society against itself.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — As the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan approached, jihadist propagandists told their followers that it was a good time to kill people.
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During three separate congressional committees, executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google were asked about how their platforms were abused by Russian propagandists to influence American voter behavior.
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It's the sort of behavior expected from propagandists, not journalists, and it crosses an ethical line that even Fox News has tried to police in the past.
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According to a number of terrorism analysts tracking the ISIS response to Orlando, however, the group's propagandists may be able to play Mateen's identity to their advantage.
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Mr. Duterte's allies in the government, his die-hard supporters and well-rewarded propagandists — the cogs in his political machinery — have been revved up to great momentum.
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And Russian propagandists did use Instagram to try to influence American voters before the 2016 presidential election, with posts that reached as many as 20 million users.
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Rick Gladstone writes: Islamic State propagandists considered Palmyra a bonanza for promoting their vision of a strictly religious caliphate devoid of homage to other cultures or religions.
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During the presidential election last year, Russian propagandists used Facebook, Google and Twitter to spread material meant to sow division and influence the outcome of the race.
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But those days are long past: Today's right-wing intellectual universe, such as it is, is dominated by hired guns who are essentially propagandists rather than researchers.
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Driving the news: A new report from the security firm Recorded Future documents two campaigns that it paid Russian-speaking, dark web propagandists-for-hire to run.
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We now know that propagandists play off existing ideological divisions to sharpen discord, including by infiltrating bona fide interest groups and mobilizing real-world protests and activism.
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They showed that North Vietnam controlled the South Vietnamese "resistance" from the beginning, even while Hanoi's propagandists convinced gullible Westerners that it was a purely local movement.
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North Korean propagandists used rudimentary editing techniques to crop and flip old video footage of an earlier SLBM test and Scud missile launch, the CNS study showed.
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In particular, in their appeals to Africans, Islamic State propagandists are calling on doctors to make "hijrah", or pilgrimage, to their African stronghold of Sirte in Libya.
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In fact, he shows, it was not just frustrated third parties but the protagonists, Catholic and Protestant propagandists, who subverted faith by using arguments that undermined theism.
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So even while its physical hold slips, its surviving cadres — middle managers, weapons technicians, propagandists and other operatives — will invest that experience in the group's future operations.
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Countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia, which already employ thousands of online propagandists to abuse government opponents and push official talking points, could scale up their efforts overnight.
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Thus Qatar was indispensable to the American war effort in Iraq and at the same time gave credence to one of the most influential Islamic propagandists against it.
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His measured style was a contrast to the bombastic rhetoric often used by Pyongyang's propagandists, although at some events he sang revolutionary Red Army Choir songs in Korean.
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Ads that follow you around the web, propagandists targeting your news feed, randos in another country reviewing your doorbell footage — did we really, knowingly agree to all this?
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This recent surge signals the ability of ISIS to control accounts across Twitter and amplify its narratives in ways which still demonstrate its effectiveness as Salafi-jihadist propagandists.
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Reports are unfolding about instances in which people took action in response to politically-charged content they were exposed to on Facebook by Russian propagandists using fake accounts.
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Humans already have trouble recognizing relatively naive text bots masquerading as real users; these advances in machine learning will give propagandists even more power to manipulate the public.
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Propagandists often don't care whether everyone, or even most people, really believe the specific things they are selling (although it turns out that lots of people always do).
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Propagandists painted them as a nefarious foreign race (defined, according to a report printed in multiple medical journals, by their "yellow, sunken, cadaverous visage" and "thick, protuberant lips").
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For ISIS, whose propagandists have described Sousse and the Bardo Museum as "dens of vice," tourists are a vulnerable embodiment of Western decadence—legitimate targets for righteous extirpation.
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They're people who even center-right professionals consider charlatans and cranks; they make a living by pretending to do actual economics — often incompetently — but are actually just propagandists.
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Note that just yesterday, two Daily Caller propagandists lobbed Trump a softball about potential Whitaker replacements, and Trump, unprompted, confessed that Whitaker's appointment was all about Mueller. pic.twitter.
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One of The Base's primary propagandists, an alleged 18-year-old man from California who goes by the moniker 'Poilu', has begun to create propaganda for Fascist Forge.
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Or will right-wing propagandists, who seek to divide workers on issues of race and gender, be the winners of a media industry that overlooks the working class?
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According to Mr. Xi's propagandists, he has rewritten the rules of diplomacy; is personally popular among all leaders around the world; and of course is humble and modest.
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The longtime director of the Russian State Archive, Sergei Mironenko, was removed from his job last year after he exposed the story as "fiction" invented by Soviet propagandists.
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He said he liked listening to Mr. Nevzorov instead of the jingoistic propagandists on state television because "only he speaks the truth" about the dangers of militaristic patriotism.
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The group's ability to orchestrate or attack targets in the West has atrophied in recent years, as American airstrikes have targeted their bomb-makers and English-language propagandists.
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The women of ISIS served as wives and mothers, yes, but also as propagandists, members of a brutal morality police, slave owners and, toward the end, even combatants.
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When artists are made the slaves and the tools of the state; when artists become chief propagandists of a cause, progress is arrested and creation and genius are destroyed.
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In Lithuania last year, government intelligence experts showed me their handbook, explaining to their citizens how to spot real news made by professionals and fake news peddled by propagandists.
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For your book, you went around the world talking to people on the front lines of this new information war — the propagandists, the spin doctors, the social media gurus.
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Indeed, over the last year in particular, his rhetoric has persistently reflected that of the ISIS propagandists, especially when it came to issues pertaining to Islam and the West.
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Joining al Qaeda in 2004, he rose quickly and became one of the group's chief propagandists in America, establishing an online presence and actively recruiting others into the fold.
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Their propagandists depict such sites as structures that in their view are only meaningful to anti-Muslim organizations such as UNESCO, and are a distraction from "true" Islamic history.
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In February 2019, after NBC News released a report suggesting Russian propagandists were backing Gabbard, she accused the media outlet of attempting to smear her as a "Kremlin stooge."
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Refusal to do so is not merely an act of pandering to a vocal minority of predatory propagandists, but will directly cause the disability and death of innocent children.
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Cambridge Analytica's executives claim to have converted Facebook data into " psychographic " profiles, which political propagandists then used to microtarget users, sending them ads tailored to their biases and anxieties.
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Most of the cases are occurring among unvaccinated Somali-American children in Minneapolis, whose parents have been the targets of anti-vaccine propagandists, according to the state health department.
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Soviet propagandists made a film featuring Americans living in poverty, with the point being that America was a brutal, terrible place that mistreated workers and left people in squalor.
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The idea of a summit meeting in Pyongyang makes some American officials cringe, envisioning how North Korean propagandists would depict it as Mr. Trump paying homage to Mr. Kim.
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It also established a new political narrative for Trump's propagandists in conservative media -- that the watchdog report is merely a distraction and it's the Durham report that really matters.
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Artists like Malevich, Mayakovsky and Alexander Rodchenko became propagandists for the nascent Communist regime, a regime that would later drive them into exile, and in some instances, to suicide.
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In recent weeks the breakdown in talks has led state propagandists to draw comparisons with the Korean war of the 1950s, a bloody struggle between China and America (see Chaguan).
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Reports like the NYT's reveal to the public that major political discussion topics and hashtags are being gamed by propagandists, which helps cast doubt on legitimacy of larger social conversation.
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Researchers say these are some of the latest examples of how WhatsApp has been weaponized by propagandists to deliver fake news and hate speech during an already divisive election season.
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"If the Union yielded to such critics, and condoned the denial of rights to Nazi propagandists, in what position would it be to champion the rights of others?" they argued.
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None of which is lost on ISIS propagandists, who are keen to portray the United States and Russia as in league in an ongoing war of annihilation against Sunni Muslims.
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The argument is not only counterfactual—no matter how mightily propagandists such as Shapiro strain to turn America's founding generation into pious evangelicals, they were Enlightenment rationalists—it's also unoriginal.
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A study released in the fall by George Washington University found that Twitter was indeed the platform of choice for ISIS propagandists in part because creating accounts is so simple.
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Over the past few years, extremists, conspiracy theorists and government-backed propagandists have made a habit of swarming major news events, using search-optimized "keyword bombs" and algorithm-friendly headlines.
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But on Thursday Islamic State propagandists asserted responsibility and described Congo as the "Central Africa Province of the Caliphate," according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamic State announcements.
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According to a research report, Twitter has been as instrumental to propagandists, particularly through the use of fake accounts — that is, accounts run by bots pretending to be actual users.
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To propagandists in Beijing, no free will has been marshalling those students and pensioners, doctors in hospital scrubs and black-suited lawyers, off-duty civil servants and parents with pushchairs.
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Pro-Kremlin propagandists such as Dmitry Kiselyov, a well-known state TV host, have even suggested that "aggressive behavior" from the United States could prompt a nuclear response from Russia.
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That leaves open a huge loophole for bad actors, including the Russian propagandists whose ads often focused on stoking tensions around issues like police brutality or immigration, rather than promoting candidates.
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"I hope that both politicians and mass media will act responsibly and adequately in the current situation and will not attack Ukraine with the theses borrowed from Russian propagandists," he said.
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The shift could be faster for North Korea: its propagandists may have described America as its arch-enemy until recently, but it has been more than six decades since they fought.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — China's Communist Party propagandists turned to rap and Beethoven this week in their quest to reach a target audience often rendered indifferent to dull party slogans by lifelong consumption.
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Online messages from Islamic State propagandists viewed by Reuters say Bahrumsyah, an Indonesian national, died after U.S. air strikes hit Hajin, north of the Syrian city of Abu Kamal, last Tuesday.
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But this new research certainly sheds light on an enormous network of top rate propagandists, who have no doubt learned a thing or two from Americans about the art of distraction.
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Over the past two months, party propagandists have asked economists at top universities and research institutions to expound on their views of what supply-side reforms should entail, according to insiders.
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A month before the party called the meeting in Mr. Quang A's neighborhood to select the candidates, party propagandists made a video in which his neighbors were asked to denounce him.
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Jessikka Aro is a Finnish journalist who exposed the international influence of Russian propagandists at the Internet Research Agency long before the rest of the world had ever heard of them.
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A spokesperson for the prime minister said it was "wrong for the president to have done this," referring to him re-tweeting fake news peddled by far-right propagandists Britain First.
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According to RAND Corporation political scientist and terrorism watcher Colin Clarke, once US outlets began linking the attacks to ISIS, it was almost natural for its propagandists to try and capitalize.
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The propagandists insisted that under General Lee, the South had fought nobly for the principles of self-determination and states' rights, despite having little hope of defeating the more industrialized North.
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But two trends are going to be particularly hard to stop: "deepfake" videos, which are videos altered to show speakers saying inflammatory things, and propagandists using real videos out of context.
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The actions of current and former FBI officials are making life easy for Kremlin propagandists, who no longer have to make stuff up and now just cut-and-paste news reports.
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His son banned or ejected reporters, including some from The Des Moines Register, The Storm Lake Times and other publications, from the congressman's election-night rally, calling them left-wing propagandists.
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In the clip above, Mr. Poperechny lampooned how the main state TV news program might cover him, mocking the mannerisms of TV anchor Dmitri Kiselyov, one of the Kremlin's chief propagandists.
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More than 80 percent of the cases in Minnesota involved unvaccinated Somali-American kids, whose parents had long been the targets of anti-vaccine propagandists, according to the state health department.
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Russian propagandists, at home and in China, have taken advantage of the current trade war to fan the flames of conflict and offer their nation as a fellow victim of America's aggression.
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Perhaps, then, this is because its propagandists are begrudgingly aware of his potential as an evidence base for their assertions and, for that reason, do not want to get in his way.
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" Speaking generally of "skilled propagandists", he said: "Once you've started to go after a particular community, and you feel that the opposition is shrinking...you can then go after others as well.
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Despite this surveillance, extremist activists and propagandists managed to create huge numbers of fake accounts and distribute millions of pieces of made-up or incendiary content on Facebook during the 2016 election.
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Was it just happenstance that the racists, misogynists, anti-Semites, and conspiracy-mongers of the right, from Alex Jones to wildly popular but relatively obscure propagandists, had made YouTube their digital home?
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American intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian hackers and propagandists worked to tip the election in Mr. Trump's favor, and investigators want to know whether anyone around Mr. Trump helped that effort.
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German propagandists in World War I first used the story line, claiming that the British were crucifying German soldiers, he said, and it has been a staple of European war propaganda since.
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A trending hashtag creates a trap for journalists who cover the internet: Even if they cover a conspiracy theory only to debunk it, they're most likely playing into what the propagandists' want.
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The Palestinian leader during the Holocaust, Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, closely collaborated with Nazi propagandists and organized thousands of troops to form Nazi-backed auxiliary military and support units to decimate Jews.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has denied a work permit to a Human Rights Watch researcher, accusing the group of serving as Palestinian propagandists in a move the U.S.-based organisation called an "ominous turn".
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Recent comments made by Rachid Kassim, a Frenchman who joined the Islamic State and is now suspected of being one of its leading propagandists, suggest this kind of strategy might be at play.
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Watts also suggested that Trump has made life easier for Russian propagandists by repeating Russia's signature talking points about the election being rigged and by initially denying US intelligence reports about Russian interference.
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Dismissing the evidence against him and Mr. Janitskin as "fabricated," Mr. Backman said on Friday that the Finnish court "has become an instrument for NATO propagandists" seeking to silence criticism of the alliance.
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As detailed in Mueller's indictment of Russian hackers and digital propagandists, the campaign also involved the creation of social media accounts that spread messages meant to undermine Trump's opponents — most notably, Hillary Clinton.
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The consolidation of the online social ecosystem into a few major platforms means that propagandists have ready audiences; they need only blanket a handful of services to reach hundreds of millions of people.
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The dog and caravan idiom is a favorite when North Korean propagandists want to dismiss America as an inconsequential mutt yapping at what they call their country's surging march toward mastering nuclear armaments.
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" Stereotypes are potent tools for propagandists and demagogues because they provide, in Mr. Stanley's words, "social scripts that guide us through the world, make sense of it, and legitimate our actions within it.
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From dawn to dusk, scammers—be they bots, trolls, or propagandists—scour the internet searching for pictures or memes that have gone viral in the past: comfort foods, videos of things falling over, puppies.
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These far-right radicals are not all being primarily motivated by the ideological factors exploited by far-right wing propagandists -- any more than other types of terrorists are always being primarily motivated by ideology.
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"If you marry someone, marry someone like Uncle Xi; Swift and decisive, conscientious in everything he does," belts out a woman in the folk-bombast style beloved of China's propagandists (the second video, below).
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Data from the German Marshall Fund and Alliance for Securing Democracy's "Hamilton 68" dashboard that tracks Russian propagandists on Twitter found that Russian accounts were using hashtags like "#parklandstudentsspeak" a week after the shooting.
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President Donald Trump is facing criticism for hosting controversial right-wing social media personalities and propagandists at a media summit at the White House Thursday that will feature no representation from Twitter or Facebook.
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FARA was used repeatedly to crack down on Nazi propagandists in the US before and during World War II, and after the war was used as one of many instruments of anti-communist repression.
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And as the special counsel's team painstakingly detailed in its indictment of Russian hackers and propagandists, troll Facebook and Twitter accounts were central to the Kremlin's strategy of pushing pro-Trump messages in 2016.
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As Sophia Ignatidou notes in the Guardian: While initially countries that were seasoned propagandists, such as Russia and North Korea, were identified as the main culprits, the list of states employing disinformation is growing.
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This slander was picked up again by the American propagandists during the Spanish-American War and echoes of it continue in the dim and prejudiced view some hold of Hispanics generally to this day.
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The company has faced intense scrutiny from critics who say it allowed Russian propagandists and other groups to use its advertising tools to target users with divisive messages, hate speech and other harmful content.
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Beijing (CNN)One of Beijing's best known propagandists has pushed back against the government's internet crackdown ahead of the upcoming 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1.
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The books and articles describe a kind of alternative historical universe, one where Japan fought entirely nobly in World War II and in which its alleged atrocities were invented by Chinese and Korean propagandists.
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Perhaps the most unfortunate example of that came when the father of Mohamed Osman Mohamud called the FBI in 2009 to ask for help with his son, who had ties to some terrorist propagandists.
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When postwar life arrived for the artists, filmmakers, and photographers who had trudged through the Benito Mussolini years as propagandists, their work had to evolve from goading the nationalistic fervor that drove Italy toward war.
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While that call mysteriously disappeared then reappeared on the president-elect's campaign website last week—suggesting it may be another promise Trump could revise—analysts say those comments alone are enough ammo for jihadist propagandists.
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During its campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the United States military focused less on targeting traditional leadership and more on hunting and killing the group's best propagandists and English language translators.
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Administration officials have countered that focusing on the use of the phrase is a political distraction and gives fuel to Islamic State propagandists who say the United States has waged war against all of Islam.
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Computer users sit near a monitor display with a message from the Chinese police on the proper use of the Internet (Associated Press)China is notorious for employing an estimated 2 million government propagandists online.
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It's not just the Ku Klux Klan newspaper that supports Trump, or retired propagandists from the old K.G.B. Jones told the Republican presidential nominee that 90 percent of his radio show's listeners are with him.
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The word "liberalism," she reports, seems to have been "invented as a term of abuse" in early-19th-century Europe, when monarchists and Roman Catholic propagandists deployed it to denigrate opposition to crown and clergy.
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Propagandists in Pyongyang have always lied to the North Korean people about this well-documented history, claiming that South Korea and the United States stealthily started the war and the Great Leader brilliantly won it.
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American intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian hackers and propagandists worked to tip the election toward Mr. Trump, and a special prosecutor and congressional committees are now investigating whether his campaign associates colluded with Russians.
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Mr. Assange is now seen by many, including some who once had admired him the most, as an accomplice of the Russian propagandists and Donald J. Trump supporters who had sought to malign Mrs. Clinton.
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" The way to counter such a multi-layered propaganda ploy is not with a John Foster Dulles-esque snub, but with a steely smile and firm handshake, telling Pyongyang's propagandists, "I've heard much about you.
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During the U.S. election, propagandists — some working for money, others for potentially state-sponsored lulz — used the service to turn fake stories into viral sensations, like the one about Pope Francis' endorsing Trump (he hadn't).
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"The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I," an exhibition of grand scale and heavy metal at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, plots the relentless rise of this most elegant of Hapsburg propagandists.
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While he directed cells of Islamic State militants who conducted attacks in Europe, his propagandists also inspired lone gunmen in Europe and the United States to mount attacks that were much harder to detect and prevent.
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Trump has rejected evidence that foreign propagandists tried to influence the 2016 presidential election, and as Facebook started sharing suspicious political ads allegedly from a Russian "troll farm," he suggested Facebook was part of a conspiracy.
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After the Civil War, "Lost Cause" propagandists from the Confederacy argued the war wasn't fought over slavery -- it was a constitutional clash over state's rights, they said; hatred toward blacks had nothing to do with it.
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It's high profile given that executives of the companies — and another from Twitter — were grilled in both houses of Congress earlier this month, after Russian propagandists used those platforms to try to influence the 2016 election.
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There was the effort by one of the Islamic State's most prominent propagandists to recruit two young people in Nice, where an attacker had killed 86 people in July by running them down in a truck.
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And the preposterous cost projections that American conservative propagandists routinely adduce to prove that "socialized medicine" or a decent public option would exhaust our Treasury are given the lie in each of those countries every day.
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And while its propagandists have presented American prisoners as proof that the United States has been sending subversive agents into the country, it has also used them as bargaining chips in dealing with Washington, analysts said.
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Some played down Mr. Trump's remark on Tuesday as simply a warning not to attack the United States, albeit one whose tone was more typical of North Korean propagandists than it was of past American presidents.
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When Twitter and other de-platformed ISIS back in 2014, the group's propagandists spent two years "trying to develop various tools that could reduce their dependence on popular social media and file-sharing platforms," Smith said.
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President Trump's harangues against the American news media appear to have inspired a new genre of commentary in China's state media, whose propagandists spiced up social media posts and news articles with Trumpian flourishes this week.
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In both his feature films and documentaries, his aim is the opposite of the propagandists': to present the essential truth of what happened, and—an even harder task—diligently to make clear what did not happen, too.
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Russian propagandists on state television and elsewhere might have actually preferred a hawkish Hillary Clinton administration as a punching bag to distract from domestic problems like corruption and declining household incomes, as the Obama administration has been.
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One of the reasons that social media is so powerful for propagandists is that they are able to leverage the vast amounts of data that platforms like Facebook collect, and then weaponize it using psychological targeting techniques.
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The image of Arab Spring activists using Twitter to challenge repressive dictators has been replaced, in the public imagination, by that of ISIS propagandists luring vulnerable Western teen-agers to Syria via YouTube videos and Facebook chats.
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In fact, the same tools that empower advertisers to target and share certain messages with a specific audience can potentially be used by foreign propagandists to do the very same thing, and at a relatively low cost.
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" Left-wing propagandists might even borrow a few of his pithy formulations of their views: Liberalism "doesn't just export its atrocities; it exports its exploitations and then brings back the profits to support the supposedly liberal arts.
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Ms. Cram, for example, noted that Russian propagandists might have used hashtags related to Brexit only because they fit with protectionist, nativist or anti-Muslim themes that resonated in the context of the American election, as well.
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It was only after Twitter released data on Russian propagandists in November 2017 when her team realized that some of the most prolific posters — on both sides of the debate — were fictional personas created by the Russians.
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The study from the Swiss nonprofit organization adds to a chorus of calls for Silicon Valley to stem the spread of violent material from Islamic State militants and the use of their services by alleged Russian propagandists.
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Since an influence-peddling scandal surrounding Ms Park erupted in October, the chance to jeer at her misfortune—North Korea routinely insults her as a "miserable political prostitute"—has been too good for its propagandists to pass up.
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Yet repeatedly in recent years the two companies, as well as Twitter, have been caught flat-footed by reports of abuse and manipulation of their platforms by trolls, hate groups, conspiracy theorists, misinformation peddlers, election meddlers and propagandists.
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Then, when we met Hillary, we were laughing so hard because, 'Yeah, now we will do this photo and everybody, the Russian propagandists will be so happy, they'll say, 'Finally they went to America to get their money!
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As Green notes in Devil's Bargain, this is a man who counts Nazi propagandists among his influencers, and he generally rejects the assumption that facts and reason should be principles that limit various methods of mobilizing the citizenry.
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The reason for that is simple — there is no plan that would allow Britain to have its cake and eat it, too, as disingenuously promised by Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary and most shameless of Brexit propagandists.
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But it's now clear that interconnection by its very nature also brings about confounding new social situations, whether it's the problem of disinformation seeded and spread by organized propagandists or the mind-bendingly obsessive culture of online fandom.
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So while Carter risked life and arrest to document atrocities, and propagandists documented the victory of the Vietnamese people over the American soldiers, it is the spectacle, rather than the content, of an image that reigns and remains.
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Now, though, this same image lets the Kremlin's propagandists present him as an ally in the global fight between right-minded nationalists and decadent Western liberals, a battle that will continue in the upcoming elections in Germany and France.
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Documents obtained by Bernstein reveal that while Yiannopolous publicly disavowed the alt-right, he and his colleagues at Breitbart News worked steadily in concert with a wide array of alt-right propagandists to represent their views on their website.
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As leaders in Silicon Valley hone their weapons of detection, foreign and domestic propagandists will continue to leverage internet targeting algorithms, dividing us up into opposing groups and feeding us the disinformation we are most likely to find relevant.
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We know the playbook of these right-wing propagandists: They inject these conspiracy theories into America's nervous system, understanding that the stories, or even just portions of them, will draw attention from media, even if it's to debunk them.
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Although Twitter reaches a relatively small British audience, Russian efforts to use the platform would suggest that its propagandists were also active on Facebook, which has more users and is much harder for those outside the company to monitor.
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Soviet agents were instructed to infiltrate party and campaign staffs in the United States in search of embarrassing information to leak to the press, while Soviet propagandists pushed a set of anti-Reagan story lines to the Western media.
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Del Rey's most recent album, produced by Jack Antonoff, takes its name from one of America's greatest propagandists, Norman Rockwell, who spent 50 years advocating presidential policies from his pulpit as an illustrator for the weekly Saturday Evening Post.
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Reviewing 353 episodes from 26 different shows focused on crime from the 2017–18 season, the study provides a fascinatingly detailed look at the ways the creative forces behind these shows are essentially functioning as propagandists for American cops.
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Instagram could become a new platform for the sharing of disinformation around the 2020 election because of the way propagandists are relying on images and proxy accounts to create and circulate fake content, leading social intelligence experts tell Axios.
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If true, lancing the boil of this particular destructive form of nationalism requires less a broad rethinking of the foundations of politics and more specific focus and the ability of a handful of propagandists to decisively alter the course of events.
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Many Americans are out of patience with a president who spends inordinate time preening in the glow of the lavish praise he demands from his appointees and propagandists while failing miserably to deliver on what he promised for his first term.
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" Revkin made a similar, if more skeptical, observation: "Its media apparatus does not depend on territorial control, and IS propagandists are already trying to spin recent and future military losses as merely a temporary retreat on the path to eventual victory.
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This worldview — that American politics is dominated by an Orwellian consensus ("crimethink" and "double plus ungood" are both ironic reclamations of terms used by the totalitarian propagandists in Orwell's 1984) that operates through periodic purges — is foundational to the alt-right.
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Police believe it was a result of being in contact with Asqa Mahmood, a 21-year-old Scottish woman who travelled to Syria at the end of 2013 and went on to become one of the group's most prolific propagandists.
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Paul Krugman Long ago, you-know-who suggested that propagandists should apply the "big lie" technique: make their falsehoods so huge, so egregious, that they would be widely accepted because nobody would believe they were lying on that grand a scale.
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And thus while millions of people in Florida and south Texas work to rebuild their homes, businesses and communities, we should resist efforts by shameless propagandists to tie the death and destruction caused by these two big hurricanes to global warming.
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Facebook's vulnerabilities were exposed during the 2016 election when Russian propagandists infiltrated the network and targeted people with fake news, and Google's YouTube is in a constant struggle to determine the boundaries between free speech and over-the-top outrage.
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The distribution mechanics, rules and terms of service of Facebook's platform — and the rest of social media — are no match for professional propagandists, trolls, charlatans, political operatives and hostile foreign actors looking to sow division and blur the lines of reality.
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As the growth of infections in the country has seemingly slowed, Beijing has pivoted to provisioning protective gear to Italy for a price, while its propagandists engage in a barely concealed display of schadenfreude aimed squarely at the United States.
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The story began with a declaration by propagandists within the Chinese government that the U.S. had agreed to a 'phased cancellation' of the tariffs and that 'tariffs already increased should be canceled at the same time and by the same rate.
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American intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian hackers and propagandists worked to tip the election toward Donald J. Trump, in part by stealing and then providing to WikiLeaks internal Democratic Party and Clinton campaign emails that were embarrassing to Mrs. Clinton.
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The cleric, Ahmad Musa Jebril, who had been living in the Detroit area for some years, is one of several described by authorities as online propagandists who could have influenced the three attackers, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Then there's a concern that voicing our frustrations with birth control itself could provide ammunition to those who want to restrict it; to anti-abortion propagandists and crisis pregnancy centers who spread lies about completely unfounded risks of using contraception.
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IS propagandists take seriously the notion that Dabiq, a location in northern Syria, will witness a titanic battle between Islamic forces and those of "Rome"—which might mean anything from NATO to the Christian world to the constitutionally secular republic of Turkey.
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Photo: APAhead of the Zuckening on Tuesday afternoon, Twitter formally declared support for the Honest Ads Act, legislation crafted in the wake of the previous great social media scandal—Russian propagandists targeting American voters with fraudulent ads online during the 2016 presidential election.
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The mood in Washington has soured against the former tech darling in recent years following the leaks of millions of its users' personal information and the disclosure that its platform had been manipulated by Russian propagandists to spread misinformation and undermine democracy.
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The United Kingdom preferred to keep the jihadists close in the 1990s, allowing London to become a home for dissidents and propagandists of all sorts, many of whom encouraged young Muslims to fight in Bosnia, Chechnya, and other places with insurgent battlegrounds.
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Another relevant matter of concern regarding Zuckerberg and Facebook, Galloway adds, is that the social networking giant has already faced high-profile criticism regarding "bad actors" (such as Russian propagandists) using the platform to spread misinformation and sow discord through Facebook and Instagram.
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This decision led to a number of awkward reversals, such as when GOP leaders and right-wing propagandists drove Senator Chuck Grassley from acknowledging a "bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates" to validating death-panel conspiracy theories in a matter of weeks.
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Editorial If only we could dismiss Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Laura Ingraham and the other well-paid propagandists at Fox News as though they were harmless drunks at the end of the bar, ticking off their conspiracy theories to anyone who will listen.
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"A staff of skilled propagandists was dispatched in advance to engineer the connivance of the city fathers, wake to ecstasy the slumbering Chamber of Commerce and lash the local peons to a frenzy of adulation," The New York Times reported in 1939.
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Most of the messages sought to inflame fears about Muslims and immigrants to help drive the vote, suggesting parallels to the strategy that Russian propagandists employed in the United States in the 383 election to try to intensify the polarization of the electorate.
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Soleimani&aposs death could do the same thing to the Trump administration, by creating a situation on the ground that is too deadly and volatile to be glibly dismissed as fake news by the administration, or spun away by Trump aligned propagandists.
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And in a climate in which even a (former) director of CIA can say with all conviction that we "do not steal secrets" or lie, and then not be fired, it's no surprise that professional propagandists and psychological warriors are a dying breed.
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Because WhatsApp is encrypted in a way that not even Facebook can read the messages — thus preventing oppressive regimes from subpoenaing Facebook for the messages — there aren't many good options to moderate links and other content from propagandists or well-meaning-but-incorrect uncles.
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Wardle has taken to calling them "zombie rumors," and it's her life work to eradicate them in their many forms—misinformation posted by individuals in their personal Facebook feeds; massive disinformation campaigns coordinated by nation-state-backed propagandists; fake information perpetuated by persistent algorithms.
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The shadowy figure known as "Dark Foreigner"—one of Atomwaffen's chief propagandists, once described as its "graphic designer"—is a 21-year-old Canadian man based somewhere in Ontario, and his extensive online footprint shows he is supporting far-right groups within Canada and elsewhere.
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Appearing on the Russian talk show "60 Minutes," Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry, said the ministry was preparing a report to name and shame the "brigade of propagandists" — pointing at, among others, Fareed Zakaria — who tried to tie Mr. Trump to Russia.
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Despite the sharp alarms being sounded over deepfakes — uncannily realistic AI-generated videos showing real people doing and saying fictional things —security experts believe that the videos ultimately don't offer propagandists much advantage compared to the simpler forms of disinformation they are likely to use.
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Regardless, Trump and Republican activists have long alleged anti-conservative bias in major Silicon Valley companies, with Trump hosting a "social media summit" at the White House in July, where he invited far-right conspiracy theorists and conservative propagandists but not social media companies.
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But it's also fair to say that things like alleged Russian propagandists reaching up to 126 million users before the 2016 elections in the US had some kind of impact, even if it's not really quantifiable, and Facebook mostly seems interested in limiting its culpability for it.
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At the same time, the enhanced presence of American forces would immediately transform the entire nature of the conflict, allowing ISIS propagandists to portray this as a battle between Islam and heathens, rather than the intra-Islamic conflict that has taken shape since the United States exited.
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We learn that Saudi propagandists draw on the aesthetics of Disney's "Aladdin"; that numerous European buildings borrow their neoclassical façades from Syria's Roman ruins; that, in the midst of the First World War, German Orientalists wrote a tract in classical Arabic encouraging jihad against France and Britain.
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In a number of countries, far-right parties have increased their share of the vote, helped along by Russian meddling and propagandists such as Steve Bannon , the former Trump adviser, who set himself up in an Italian monastery with dreams of building an international nationalist alliance.
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Nor did many voters in 1860 try to deconstruct why Abraham Lincoln's propagandists chose to present him as a backwoods rail-splitter, which he had not been for a very long time, instead of the well-heeled corporate lawyer he had, thanks to hard work and talent, become.
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Mr Shekau now carefully calls himself the Imam of Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal Jihad—the name that Boko Haram used for itself before it cosied up to IS. IS propagandists have always disliked his violent tactics; and ideological differences have spawned splinter groups in Nigeria in the past.
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By backing Trump, white evangelicals were playing into the hands of a new, alt-right version of Christianity—a sprawling coalition of white nationalists, old-school Confederates, neo-Nazis, Islamophobes, and social-media propagandists who viewed the religious right, first and foremost, as a vehicle for white supremacy.
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, one of the Trump administration's loudest anti-China voices, lashed out at journalists on Friday in an e-mail, accusing them of being "played" by Chinese "propagandists" who were falsely stating that the two sides had agreed to cancel tariffs in phases.
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On Twitter, opinion was divided between those who thought the images of a defenseless child were tasteless even by the standards of the Islamic State's hardened propagandists and those who speculated that the extremist news agency did not want to show Mr. Abballa as unwilling to kill a child.
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, one of the Trump administration's loudest anti-China voices, lashed out at journalists on Friday in an e-mail, accusing them of being "played" by Chinese "propagandists" who were falsely stating that the two sides had agreed to cancel tariffs in phases.
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In the face of extreme provocations from Israel, not one rocket has been fired into Israel by Hamas or other Palestinian factions; indeed, notwithstanding increasingly desperate attempts by the Israeli government and its propagandists to depict the protests as a military threat, Israel has suffered not a single casualty.
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And after a year in which it became blindingly obvious that Twitter was rife with abuse and harassment, and that it has become a haven for propagandists, bots and other manipulators, there's one sacred cow in particular that deserves to be roasted more thoroughly than your Thanksgiving bird.
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Because his father was the commander of all American forces in the Pacific during most of his five and a half years of captivity, Mr. McCain, a Navy lieutenant commander, became the most famous prisoner of the war, a victim of horrendous torture and a tool of enemy propagandists.
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I'd come to view her as an emissary from a dystopian political-media environment that seemed to be heading our way, with governmental threats against dissent, disinformation from the presidential level and increasingly assertive propagandists who stoke the perception that there can be no honest arbiter of truth.
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After Kim Jong-un came to power eight years ago, propagandists started to build a personality cult around him, claiming, for instance, that he has been an expert marksman since the age of 3, when he hit 20 bull's eyes in a row, according to North Korean defectors.
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Last fall, when Congress called on Facebook to answer for its failures during the 2016 election—including selling ads to Russian propagandists and allowing fake news to flourish on the platform—the social networking giant sent its general counsel, Colin Stretch, leaving lawmakers wanting for face time with the company's founder.
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CAIRO — Officials in Saudi Arabia have said that the executions of 47 prisoners on Saturday were a long overdue reckoning for militants, including accused Qaeda members who were said to be recruiters, propagandists or bomb makers who helped carry out deadly attacks in the kingdom more than a decade ago.
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Come to think of it, you also did not assent to companies slicing and dicing your information into a perfectly layered hoagie just waiting to be devoured by propagandists from Russia and China, who then burped out a potentially history-altering counterintelligence operation the likes of which humanity has never seen.
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As both countries vie for a greater role in the Syrian war, we are reminded of the position that both Ankara and Moscow have adopted in recent years as skilled propagandists, spreading the kind of expansionist politics that the subjects of Young Turks have internalized in the name of culture.
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Wood tracked down some of ISIS's most vocal propagandists and pamphleteers in the West, and far from being bumbling clowns—though there was certainly an element of cartoonishness in all of them—they offered cogent arguments for why the Islamic State was the only legitimate ruler of the Muslim world.
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ANONYMOUS SOURCING 'CIRCUS' White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, one of the Trump administration's loudest anti-China voices, lashed out at journalists on Friday in an e-mail, accusing them of being "played" by Chinese "propagandists" who were falsely stating that the two sides had agreed to cancel tariffs in phases.
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Take action against foreign propagandists The bottom line is that personal data is taken from you each time you visit a website; this helps third parties to target you with ads in exchange for what appears to be "free" content – a lopsided transaction that puts your privacy and security at risk.
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Having spent the past few years embedding as a reporter with the trolls and bigots and propagandists who are experts at converting fanatical memes into national policy, I no longer have any doubt that the brutality that germinates on the internet can leap into the world of flesh and blood.
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Atomwaffen is not the only organized group promoting accelerationism; other groups whose ideas fit the doctrine are the Bowl Gang, a small group of online propagandists who lionize Roof; and The Base, a trans-Atlantic neo-Nazi umbrella group that explicitly aims to turn online chatter into real-world violence.
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The gulf between what Mr. Putin says and what happens in Russia raises a fundamental question about the nature of his rule after more than 18 years at the pinnacle of an authoritarian system: Is Mr. Putin really the omnipotent leader whom his critics attack and his own propagandists promote?
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Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have business models that thrive on the outrageous, the incendiary and the eye-catching, because such content generates "engagement" and captures our attention, which the platforms then sell to advertisers, paired with extensive data on users that allow advertisers (and propagandists) to "microtarget" us at an individual level.
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Mixing dark humor with sardonic analysis of Russia's direction under President Vladimir V. Putin, Mr. Gorbunov, 27, has become a social media sensation, outpacing Kremlin propagandists in the race for attention on Twitter, Instagram and Telegram, a secure messaging service developed by Russians that Moscow tried in vain last year to shut down.
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"Having spent the past few years embedding as a reporter with the trolls and bigots and propagandists who are experts at converting fanatical memes into national policy, I no longer have any doubt that the brutality that germinates on the internet can leap into the world of flesh and blood," he wrote.
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Screenshot: Center for Public IntegrityAmong other objectives, SCL Group was tasked with conducting interviews with recruiters and propagandists for ISIS (which is also known as Da'esh), as well as "people who are representative of potential Da'esh recruits in various countries," including those in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East/North Africa region.
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"The winner-take-all system of the electoral college and rural/urban polarization make our presidential elections marginally more vulnerable to effective targeted strategies by campaign — or Russian propagandists — that could tip the outcome," said Andy Wright, a former associate counsel to President Barack Obama who is now a professor at Savannah Law School.
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Instagram, owned by Facebook, was a key tool: The indictment "underscores how thoroughly social-media companies like Facebook and Twitter were played by Russian propagandists, AP Tech Writers Matt O'Brien and Mae Anderson write: Why it matters: "[I]t's not clear if the companies have taken sufficient action to prevent something similar from happening again.
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Similarly, British officials also said they had seen less activity by Russian propagandists than expected after their identification of the Russian intelligence agents behind the poisoning in the spring of a former Russian spy and the Dutch authorities' detailing this month of a failed Russian cyberattack on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
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Just as Putin no longer fills prison camps with countless "enemies of the people," as Stalin did, but, rather, makes a chilling example of a famous few, like the businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky or the group Pussy Riot, his propagandists have taken their cue from foreign forms: magazine shows, shout-fests, game shows, and reality shows.
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"Erdogan was elected by the people, so to criticise him is to patronise and disrespect the people" say the Turkish president's propagandists in Ankara; "Brexit was voted for by the people, so to criticise it is to patronise and disrespect the people" say the Brexit purists in London (funnily enough, the apposite vote-share in both cases was 52%).
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Updated: 4:38 P.M. EST March 30, 2016: This post was updated to clarify that the historian only found evidence of Nazi propagandists serving as photographers in the years before World War II. An article in The Guardian had erroneously suggested that "reporters" — widely understood as a term to mean those writing stories — were incriminated as well.
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" A spokeswoman for the museum, Ann Canty, said that the museum's president, Ellen V. Futter, would not comment beyond the statement issued by the museum Thursday in response to the letter from the scientists who called on the institution to remove Ms. Mercer from its board and "end ties to anti-science propagandists and funders of climate science misinformation.
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In early February, as party propagandists were preparing a book-length paean to Mr. Xi's crisis management skills — "A Battle Against Epidemic: China Combating Covid-19 in 3003" (also to be published in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic) — two well-known critics of China's party-state published searing analyses of what the outbreak really exposed.
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Whether you turn to abstinence propagandists, mainstream pop culture, or free internet porn to fill in those gaps, you're likely to wind up with an incredibly narrow and bankrupt idea of how sex works, one that positions men as sexual actors, women as the (un)lucky recipients of men's desire, and communication of consent as lethal to both boners and romance.
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A small minority of those Muslims — told by online jihadist propagandists that there is no gray zone between Islam and the infidel, only the obligation to slaughter the unbeliever — drift off via Turkey to ISIS-held territory in Syria and return to kill — Charlie Hebdo, the Paris kosher supermarket, Paris sports and music halls and restaurants, the Brussels Jewish museum.
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And yet, thanks to years of budget cuts and a series of scaled-back field tests, some fear the Census Bureau and the broader US government are ill-equipped to handle any new issues that could arise as a result of the high-tech census, particularly at a time when hackers and propagandists seem to be working overtime to undermine American institutions.
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As executives of Twitter and Facebook took to the floor of the Senate to testify about their companies' response to international meddling into U.S. elections and addressed the problem of propagandists and polemicists using their platforms to spread misinformation, the legal geniuses at the Justice Department were focused on a free speech debate that isn't just unprecedented, but also potentially illegal.
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In the wake of last year's U.S. presidential election, in which Facebook unknowingly became a tool for Russian propagandists trying to sway the election's outcome, the company and its executives have become hyper aware of Facebook's impact on the world and have made great public effort to let everyone else know they're hyper aware of Facebook's impact on the world.
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There would be steps taken to reduce the ability for one corporation to control multiple media outlets in the same market (something much more strictly regulated in the era before the Telecommunications Act of 1996), and to limit the number of stations that one corporation can own—something that would put the propagandists at Sinclair Broadcasting in a Sanders administration's crosshairs.
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Indeed, four days before the tweet in question, the ISIS propagandists published their weekly newspaper leading with the headline, "An Unsuccessful Start to the Crusader Campaign against Nineveh," and claiming that the operation was doomed to failure from the outset because it was driven by "the necessities of the presidential election campaign in America," rather than a real will and tactical capability to liberate Mosul.
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When news broke last fall that the company had sold thousands of political ads to Russian propagandists in the runup to the 2016 election, Facebook announced it would double its content moderation team to 20,000 people, impose strict verification processes for political advertisers, and create massive repositories of political ads, complete with information on how much they cost, who paid for them, and what demographics they reached.
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The struggle between the two sides quickly devolved into community-level internecine warfare in which Mr. Chau's promise to use violence only as a last resort often went by the boards: When Communist propagandists distributed fliers celebrating a guerrilla sniper who killed an American military adviser in Kien Hoa, Mr. Chau ordered a Counter-Terror team to infiltrate the enemy-controlled hamlet where the sniper lived.
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For more than a year now, we have had to sit through the unfounded allegations of Russian "collusion" with the Trump campaign, with nothing to show for it except the findings of the House Intelligence Committee and brave investigative journalists such as Sara Carter, which show ample collusion between the Democratic National Committee, Russian propagandists and a former British spy with exceptional ties to Moscow.
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It is almost certain, though, that this particular coded language was written into his prepared text by one of three fascistic advisers: Stephen Miller, a one-time fellow traveler of Richard Spencer, who coined the term "alt-right"; Sebastian Gorka, the bellowing ogre who was affiliated with the Nazi-aligned Hungarian nationalist order of Vitézi Rend; or Steve Bannon, the anti-modernist Breitbart impresario who idolizes Nazi propagandists.
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A clear line can be drawn from the Swift Boat Veterans' early experiments in ratfuckery to the birtherism of the Obama era; the rampant, wild-eyed treatment of Hillary Clinton at the hands of charlatans like Blood Feud author Ed Klein; the gonzo antics of James O'Keefe; the media takeover of right-wing propagandists at the Sinclair Broadcast Group, right to President Trump's own two-bit criminal empire.
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He assailed unnamed "domestic propagandists" for what he considered their corrosive effect on public trust, and took a passing shot at the media for their "obsession," as he saw it, with even the most trivial details in emails hacked from the account of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's campaign chairman John Podesta.
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Among the two terabytes of information they've collected in the case are thousands of documents that reveal the personal details of US citizens whose identities were allegedly stolen to open fake bank accounts, and other US citizens who were "unwittingly recruited" by the propagandists to attend Russian-organized political rallies in the US. "If statements of these individuals were indiscriminately released, the result would be unnecessary embarrassment to these individuals who believed they were communicating about US political activities with other US persons," prosecutors wrote.
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Not surprising, given that DIS is essentially a retail assemblage of creative stock-image propagandists, the exhibition also offers a vast array of "collectible" products, like 90€ Telfar cotton tank tops, expensive "artist"-made mint juices, so-called "Hater Blocker Contact Lenses" by Yngve Holen that are billed as "protective charms," projects in collaboration with über-brosocialist brands like HBA (Hood by Air), and performances about the Internet like "How to DISappear in America: The Musical" (2016), which was so painfully kitschy I started to think the whole thing was a joke.
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Once liberals got a long-overdue whiff of the stench emanating from the other side of YouTube, Google had itself a little P.R. problem that soon turned into a big one when The Times of London, the Wall Street Journal, and others exposed a much dirtier secret hidden in plain view: YouTube wasn't just offering up millions of hours of hate speech, but rewarding the most successful propagandists with a cut of the revenue from those video ads you have to wait impatiently to "skip" before getting, say, your "33 Fun Facts About Slavery" (#5: "There Were Just as Many White Slaves as Black Slaves").
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