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A leading Brexit campaigner has been recorded praising Nazi propaganda. Andy Wigmore of the Leave.EU campaign said Nazi techniques had been "very clever". Leave.EU deliberately used outrage techniques ...

Leni Riefenstahl became famous for directing two propaganda films of the Nazi regime in 1934 and 1938: respectively, Triumph des Willens (The Triumph of the Will) and Olympia (Olympiad). The second, ...

Propaganda is not simply a tool of manipulation, and in fact a professor of communication suggests it may even be a necessary skill for any citizen to address global challenges. After carrying out ...

Peter Pomerantsev, a contributor at The Atlantic and author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, is an expert on the ways information can be manipulated. For this special ...

Propaganda. Brainwashing. What if we have been subjected to these practices all our lives? Propaganda is the distribution of biased or misleading information used to promote a specific political point ...

As the war in Israel rages, an ongoing struggle to control the narrative of the conflict is unfolding between Hamas and the Jewish state. This propaganda battle is not novel, as it has long been ...

An internal Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) investigation, conducted by retired Major-General Daniel Gosselin, has concluded that the military’s top brass took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to launch ...

In Ukraine, there is the battle on the ground; then there is the war of words over who’s to blame for the latest atrocities. When a detention center was shelled on July 29, killing dozens of Ukrainian ...

Narcissists can be opportunistic and manipulative in ways that can be hard to spot. That’s why it helps to have tools to decode unsettling or mystifying interactions with individuals who meet the ...