Sentences with phrase «propaganda tool»

"Propaganda tool" refers to a method or device used to spread biased or misleading information in order to influence people's beliefs or opinions. It is often used to shape public opinion or promote a particular agenda or ideology. Full definition
Combine this kind of predictive power with an army of bots and you've got a potent propaganda tool.
I'd like to know why, when they go to PR launches and such, they use their Twitter feeds as propaganda tools for the product they were invited to peruse.
Combined with the CRTC's plans to lift prohibitions on publishing lies, the Sun - chain's TV channel was poised to become a powerful propaganda tool for the Harper Government ™ until Atwood joined the fray.
Simply put, the Hockey Stick graph is a powerful propaganda tool used to influence public thinking and thus policy.
DEPICTIONS of catastrophic sea - level rise have become a useful propaganda tool for useful idiots in the Climate Crisis Industry who invent the most absurd future sea - level rise scenarios and recreate them in photoshopped horror stories that aim to shock you into belief...
TRANSLATION We know the computer models aren't worth a pile of bovine feces and can not predict the climate at all but they are a great propaganda tool for scaring people into doing what we want — giving up their land, transportation, freedom, and wealth and moving into overcrowded cities to live in little micro-mini apartments so they are even more vulnerable to control by the bog corporations that provide not only jobs but food and every other necessity of life.
«So far the inventory has been used as a mere propaganda tool,» says Andrzej Bobiec, a forest ecologist at the University of Rzeszów in Poland.
But US intelligence agencies believe WikiLeaks has become a Kremlin propaganda tool.
The identification of Orthodox faith with the Moscow patriarchate is becoming a mighty propaganda tool.
Tony Robinson accuses Michael Gove of «slagging off teachers» after the education secretary said Blackadder had become a left - wing propaganda tool for moulding attitudes towards the First World War
It would hand our enemies a great propaganda tool about the «Great Satan» (or whatever the en - vogue term is), and justify their own actions because we used nukes.
Some have criticised Schindler's List for being a Jewish propaganda tool, but even if the graphic violence and horrific images are as little as half true, that argument still finds no favour with most.
But in Catching Fire, Katniss and her allies use this constant media coverage to their advantage, turning Snow's own propaganda tools to fight against him.
Steve Rogers (Evans, Playing It Cool), once used as a government propaganda tool for things he didn't always believe in, think it's a bad idea, not only opening up the superheroes to be used as a tool for a bunch of selfish bureaucrats, but also because the absence of quick and decisive action, or even inaction in some cases, may cost countless more lives down the road.
While I've no doubt the company can address superficial concerns as they happen (that Russian propaganda tool, for example), I'm reserving judgement until we hear something more concrete than a New Year's resolution.
On Tuesday, UK's Channel 4 published video footage of Cambridge Analytica executives boasting about how they used online propaganda tools to help Trump win the election.
As the curator, Anne Ellegood, states, ``... in the 1950s, [abstract art] was used as a kind of propaganda tool to promote American values around the world.
Also frustrating for anyone who worries that Anonymous's take on a classic like Richard III — it basically turns one of Shakespeare's tighter history plays into a mere propaganda tool — diminishes the work itself.
Thanks to her success in the games, Katniss has become an effective propaganda tool for District 13.
«If we're going to make any sort of progress on winning this global war against Jihadism, we've got to focus on the ideology and win the battle of ideas, not just have a look at their propaganda tools and their frontmen and their symbols.»
Korea, much of the Soviet bloc, and many nations in South America and Africa use the press mostly as a propaganda tool.
Could it be a propaganda tool to further accelerate the career of a band that's sold more than 17 million records?
Although Golden Rice is not being developed for profit, activists argue that it is being used as a propaganda tool to soften the image of GM crops.
The ruling party in Hungary, Fidesz, has persistently tried to transform public - service television into its propaganda tool, but seen rather perverse results.
As a propaganda tool.
Because Iran did not agree to do that, this led not only to the UNSC to impose sanctions, but it also gave the US a powerful propaganda tool, because it could point to fresh violations by Iran on the nuclear front.
What gradually came into view was the deployment of Twitter as a propaganda tool and a means for nefarious communication, subject to virtual deletion and emendation for the purposes of advancing a military objective and a political cause.
«It would therefore, be unfortunate for the PDP to elevate this act it had perfected over the years, to a propaganda tool.
How can you issue a statement and describe Appiah Stadium as a propaganda tool.
Therefore, the allegation that the rebels claimed that they will not fight for Jammeh was a mere slippery slope and a propaganda tool by Jammeh, just to placate the Senegalese and the ECOWAS.
They could timetable the committee stage; but the principle of line - by - line scrutiny is a limit on how severe the timetabling can be, and would hand the SNP another propaganda tool presented as Westminster overriding «Scotland's will».
«It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, as a propaganda tool
Everdeen may be a champion, but Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) plans on using her as a propaganda tool.
She continues to be used as the Mockingjay, a propaganda tool, by Resistance leaders President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore) and Plutarch Heavensbee (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) in order to unify all of the districts and eventually earn full control of Panem.
Do - gooder Steve Rogers» (an earnest but likeable Chris Evans) first solo movie cleverly positioned him as a propaganda tool in a move that toned down the comic character's sometimes unpalatable patriotism.
«Mockingjay» charts her entry into war, her initially reluctant usefulness as an propaganda tool and her glower of destiny, egged on by close - ups of Donald Sutherland and those evilly arched eyebrows.
[This] was a heresy at the time in every scholastic and academic institution on the planet, except behind the Iron Curtain, where sports were turned into a propaganda tool
One of the things I found out was that the CIA used them as a propaganda tool — they weren't accepted in the United States, but then that same time the CIA was showing them to eastern Europeans saying: «Look, you have to do social realism, but this is what you could really do, you could be free.»
Although my writing here is about my own response to the painting — and not the art historical interpretation of it — I'm all for the interpretation of this painting, with its stunning technique and glorious, beautiful, and charming imagery, as a propaganda tool for women's inclusion in the academy («anything you can do, I can do better», indeed).
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