No no no, they are useful for all kinds of things! Like:
Gaslighting the masses into voting harder
Informing the masses that this coup or that assassination is definitely 100% not from some western intelligence agency
Showing stock pictures of sad things and letting the masses know that this is definitely the kind of things enemies of the foreign ministry/state departmentour enemies make happen
Show everyone that line goes up = good capitalism
Show everyone that line goes down = bad communism
Let everyone know that skyrocketing prices and unmoving wages is just normal inflation, nothing to worry about
No no no, they are useful for all kinds of things! Like:
enemies of the foreign ministry/state departmentour enemies make happen/s