If propaganda is just the the propagation of ideas whether factual or not, should we cease to use it as a derogatory term for misinformation/disinformation and instead just call it such?
If propaganda is just the the propagation of ideas whether factual or not, should we cease to use it as a derogatory term for misinformation/disinformation and instead just call it such?
In France (idk for other Frenc-speaking places), “propagande” is, in one case, used in a neutral way to designate the leaflets that are mailed to the voters before each election by the mayor. Despite that, in the common language it does bear a negative connotation, sometimes it is literally pointed as “something totalitarian regimes do!!!” which kinda shows how collectively braindead France is.