The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening across the city and suburbs. The diverging ...

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

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

Narcissists can be opportunistic and manipulative in ways that can be hard to spot. That’s why it helps to have tools to decode unsettling or mystifying interactions with individuals who meet the ...

When you imagine media in a dictatorship, you probably think of something dull and gray. Maybe a Soviet state-television program, extolling the annual harvest. Perhaps a smudgy newspaper photograph of ...

“If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.” This quote is often attributed to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s infamous chief propagandist, and illustrates the founding principle of Nazi ...

At least 70 countries around the world have sponsored political disinformation campaigns, spreading propaganda across social media and other outlets, according to a new bombshell investigation. The ...

Three governors from blue states appeared before the House Oversight Committee on June 12, 2025, in what can be accurately described as a Republican-led hate fest. Tim Walz was one of the “offenders” ...