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"Nothing has changed over the centuries but the mechanisms by which propaganda is spread."

This is true. We now have digital platforms which reward propaganda by spreading it faster.

The speed and spread of false information has exponentially increased because social media distorts media coverage, rewarding sensational, emotionally charged content with greater reach in people's timelines and feeds.

Rumors used to spread from person to person, but the algorithms are giving them an edge. The algorithms are not neutral. They are designed to favor clickbait.

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Did any smaller percentage of Americans go along with McCarthyism? The mechanisms of delivery are the excuse used to keep people blind to the faults that lay within.

Propaganda and its delivery methods only have the power you give them. We all have the ability to seek out truth.