Sentences with phrase «influenced by propaganda»

Denier opinion has been influenced by propaganda from Exxon, the Koch Brothers and the coal and electric power companies.

«The thing about growing up in the Soviet Union was that the choices were relatively limited; natural sciences were highly respected and less influenced by propaganda and politics than other fields.

This doesn't mean that they are intrinsically bad people, but rather, that most Americans are uneducated, easily influenced by propaganda, and lack critical thinking skills and the ability to question purported authority figures.

Not exact matches

The social media company has been surrounded by negative news for much of the last 18 months, since news broke that Russian - linked groups allegedly hijacked its service to spread propaganda to try to influence the 2016 election.

We learned last weekend that a trove of personal information from 50 million people — one in three U.S. Facebook users — was harvested for an influence and propaganda operation led by Cambridge Analytica, a company later used by the Trump campaign.

Psychological operations, according to a field manual produced by the U.S. Army, involve the «planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way as to support the achievement of [U.S.] national objectives.

Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.

This tragic story of mismanagement, which has already cost so many lives, is due to letting decisions be influenced, not by the facts of nature, but by political propaganda.

No substantial part of the activities of said corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and said corporation shall not participate or intervene in, including the publication or distribution of statements, political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office, whether by publishing or distributing statements or otherwise.

With her «electrifying» act of defiance at the end of Catching Fire's Quarter Quell, Katniss has stirred the beginnings of a revolution across Panem, and Coin is keen to channel that influence by filming a series of propaganda clips centred on Katniss delivering inspirational rhetoric.

While there are rumors of mass executions by the group, The Order spreads their influence of propaganda to control the spread of such stories.

After carefully analyzing several propaganda images created by the Nazis, students will consider the ways in which this material influenced individuals, and they will be encouraged to consider how the effects of propaganda are more complicated than simple brainwashing.

Dahl would soon be caught up in a complex web of deception masterminded by William Stephenson, aka Intrepid, Churchill's legendary spy chief, who, with President Roosevelt's tacit permission, mounted a secret campaign of propaganda and political subversion to weaken American isolationist forces, bring the country into the war against Germany, and influence U.S. policy in favor of England.

This program also has another aim, and this is to build a worldwide network of Animal Advocates — people who understand the scientific and experiential facts about canine health care, and who are not influenced by the advertising propaganda of big business.

We'd be hard pressed to find any rules that her eclectic and diverse work abides by, as her influences range from Eastern European propaganda and 20th - century literature to Cold War iconography and, in the case of this work, the illustrations of Hergé.

One could try to influence the democratic process by propaganda and make people choose the most rational course of action.

If people who'd rather be watching soap operas can be induced to watch socio - political propaganda instead, for instance by offering prizes, they can be influenced, polarized, or whatever other word you want to use for it.

The evidence for dangerous climate change is lacking so now you'd prefer to argue that we should make extremely costly decisions based on people person values — which have been influenced by the catastrophic climate change propaganda.

But Mr Magaya said it was all hugely worrying, raising concerns over how data and potentially «very toxic propaganda» which swept through Kenyan social media may have been used by Cambridge Analytica and their client to influence the outcome of the election.

This is of course a part of the company's ever - changing posture with regards to its influence on the election: Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president last November, Zuckerberg scoffed at the notion that propaganda on his platform had any impact on the results — but this month he says Facebook intends to expand its election - integrity team by 250 employees.

The report accused RT News, which is funded by the Russian government, of being a «state - run propaganda machine,» which contributed to Kremlin - directed efforts to influence the 2016 election, occasionally by spreading «fake news» about then - candidate Hillary Clinton.

Lauded by the industry and seen as an influence on figures like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Harris will speak about the quest to «ethically manipulate minds» in an age of «fake news, computational propaganda, and addictively designed technology products.»