• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The 95%+ consensus of scientists on climate change is both factually/meaningfully/importantly true and also used with a propagandistic flavour in many examples of political persuasion for example.

    Sure. I’d say the critical distinction of propaganda isn’t the factualness but the industrial scale of distribution.

    propaganda as a vehicle of persuasion for any and differing representations of reality

    In modern Western media, due to a combination of privatized ownership and lingering Cold War hysteria, it’s been my experience that the industrial scale persuasive efforts are decidedly pro-capitalist.