Sentences with phrase «to manipulate public opinion»

The exhibition sketches out the skill of the Nazis in manipulating public opinion through the media, and also details stories of those who attempted to resist the Nazis» supremacist sporting ideal.

I guess CNN thinks that this not - so - subtle play at manipulating public opinion will go unnoticed by most.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, has exposed Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander for using misleading data to attempt to manipulate public opinion over public sector pensions.

As the world's greatest detective, Batman figured out that Lex Luthor was manipulating public opinion against Superman — and directly caused the bombing of the U.S. Capitol Building with all the death that entailed — yet still decided to go ahead with his plan to kill Superman because, I du n no, he'd already gone through all the prep and it'd be a shame to let those cool SFX go unused.

Reflecting a more general trend, scientists have deemed it acceptable to participate in climate activism groups that seek to manipulate public opinion with a «narrative that creates public outrage» and to deploy «multiple, complementary legal strategies» to solicit assistance from the machinery of law to go after companies.

SourceWatch profiles the activities of front groups, PR spinners, industry - friendly experts, industry - funded organizations, and think tanks trying to manipulate public opinion on behalf of corporations or government.

Having clearly lost in the Western world, it is as if the religious right has found particular joy in manipulating public opinion and the Bible in third world countries.

Opponents also blamed «dirty tricks» such as providing slanted polls to the media and manipulating public opinion by planting fake news stories with radio stations across the province.

The duplicity and hypocrisy of environmental pressure groups seem to be matched only by their consummate skill at manipulating public opinion, amassing political power, securing taxpayer - funded government grants, and persuading people to send them money and invest in «ethical» stock funds.

They can outspend any other entity and manipulate public opinion.

The USA and their allies have employed a legion of disinformation agents to manipulate public opinion.

But it's even worse when unreligious politicians use religion to try to manipulate public opinion.

Misleading online identities are used to praise, defend or attack a person or position to manipulate public opinion.

Clearly their main and common aim was to neutralize the Islamic State's ability to use Twitter to reach far beyond its own narrow audience, and to reduce the violent radicals» ability to manipulate public opinion and attract new recruits and sympathizers.

Fake online identities can praise, defend or attack someone in bulk to manipulate public opinion.

That's an ethical question... and someone whose instinct is to create or hire botnets to try to manipulate public opinion has already shown us where he stands.

Politicians only care about using morality to manipulate public opinion.

As you probably know, he came up with the idea of Newspeak in this novel Nineteen Eighty - Four with the cult slogans «War is peace», «Freedom is slavery» and «Ignorance is strength» which were used in this fictional world to manipulate public opinion.

The title is Im - Propaganda: How Effective Are Misinformation Campaigns to Manipulate Public Opinion?

Picture a land where nothing is what it seems, a network of shadowy organizations conspires to manipulate public opinion, and saying the wrong thing makes you a target.

He is trying to manipulate public opinion to accept his ideas of what is right and wrong.

A letter calculated to manipulate public opinion in a disingenuous way.

Unfortunately, sensational media coverage and misleading claims of canine super strength and cunning of some breeds of dogs, especially the bull - and - terrier breeds and crossbreeds, have manipulated public opinion.

Both fund large advertising campaigns to manipulate public opinion.

It seems that the site was attempting to manipulate public opinion and discredit legitimate claims and concerns.

The video on view at Momenta was from The Living Newspaper: On Location, a participatory performance event in which audience members joined actors onstage to explore how news media provoke emotional responses in order to manipulate public opinion.

By the late sixties, as he began moving away from iconic objects of commercialism, Tom Wesselmann's works still boar a number of Pop Art footprints, yet with an unassuming and less conscious approach — devoid of any motive to manipulate public opinion.

Meanwhile climate scientists continue their work, while Left and Right distort their findings to manipulate public opinion.

Powerful corporations with an interest in delaying action have lavished money on a cynical and dishonest public campaign to manipulate public opinion by sowing false doubts about the reality of the climate crisis.

A new essay in the peer - reviewed literature searches for the secret formula by which to manipulate public opinion.

But the oil industry isn't just limiting themselves to townhall meetings — they have also embraced social media as a means to manipulate public opinion.

They may not understand climate science, but they certainly understand how to manipulate public opinion.

Whether it's the Sandy Hook massacre or Superstorm Sandy, progressives know how to use tragedies to manipulate public opinion and mobilize it behind a left - wing agenda.

We've witnessed the lengths to which political activists will go in an effort to manipulate public opinion.

Facebook's move will be seen as a sign it's taking seriously accusations that it was used to manipulate public opinion, but it also raises the question of whether other data was siphoned off without the network's knowledge.

Now political parties are using the same data to manipulate the public opinion.

It is believed that the data was used to manipulate public opinion and may have allegedly helped swing votes in Trump's favor.

Facebook has an overwhelming responsability here but people seem to be missing the elephant in the room, SCL Group, owner of Cambridge Analytica, created in 1960 during the cold war to manipulate public opinions and elections worldwide.