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by throw0101a 975 days ago
> At home, they say the sky is red, everyone says "Yes" or gets a visit from the secret police.

That is the old(er) (outdated?) view of propaganda. The/A new view is to generally not necessarily care about about any particular message:

> We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. In the words of one observer, “[N]ew Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”

* https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

* https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/i...

(Of course you can do both.)