[russian_agent]

The EU also proposed (and implemented?) its own online propaganda army long before Brexit, so the Russians might not be the only ones to interfere in public opinion.

"In order to reverse the perception that 'Europe is the problem', we need to communicate that the answer to existing challenges... is 'more Europe' not 'less Europe'."[1]

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9845442/...

[zigzigzag]

lol, username checks out.

The EU uses propaganda so routinely people don't even notice it anymore. Like how federalists always refer to the EU as "Europe" even though Europe is a continent with several non-EU countries in it, and the EU is a political arrangement. It's a subtle word trick but it plants the feeling of permanence in people's minds.

Also, the way it charges countries huge sums of money to trade with it tariff free and then dishes out the money to projects ... but only on the condition that they erect giant signs with the EU flag and saying the EU paid for it. The EU of course, produces nothing itself, it's the countries that paid for it, but putting the actual flags of the nations that paid might lead to people feeling loyalty to actual European countries instead of the EU institutions.

And then there is the actual propaganda. Including, ironically, propaganda targeted at Russia:

http://collections.internetmemory.org/haeu/content/201603131...

http://collections.internetmemory.org/haeu/content/201603131...

[ornitorrincos]

I don't know ehere you live but in here when a project is being built it's fairly normal to have a big sign with details like,

* what is being done

* starting date and expected end date

* maybe a map to show are being worked on

* company doing the work

* How much it costs

* A series of logos with every entity that funded the work, with a decreasinz size depending how much they funded)

I'd not really call that propaganda.

[zigzigzag]

This isn't whilst a project is being built. It's after it's been built, in perpetuity, to constantly remind people that the thing in question was "paid for by the EU". The logos of the actual entities that paid for it, the countries, are not shown of course.