Tag

propaganda

Entries tagged with propaganda - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

13 concepts

Astroturfing

Creating the appearance of widespread grassroots support for a position when the support is manufactured, funded, or coordinated from above.

A strategy of breaking apart alliances and turning potential allies against each other to maintain control.

Using coded language that sounds innocent to most people but carries a hidden message to a specific audience.

Overwhelming audiences with a rapid, continuous flood of disinformation so that truth becomes impossible to defend.

Repeat something often enough and people start to believe it - not because it's true, but because it's familiar.

Words chosen to trigger an emotional reaction rather than communicate neutral information.

When media systems produce public agreement with elite interests - not through censorship, but through structure.

The tendency to develop a preference for things simply because you've encountered them before.

Intense public fear about a perceived threat, amplified by media, disproportionate to the actual danger.

The range of ideas the public considers acceptable at any given time - and how that range can be deliberately shifted.

The rhetorical strategy of making a claim more believable, more familiar, and more powerful simply by saying it again and again.

Passing unreliable information through a chain of increasingly credible-looking sources until it appears legitimate.

Responding to a criticism by pointing to someone else's wrongdoing instead of addressing the original point.