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* [[Doctor Steel]] has various [[Public Service Announcement]]s that focus heavily upon the power of imagination and of improving your general life. He is not only quite open about calling the propaganda he produces propaganda, he's skilled enough to get away with it, too; it helps that he's an [[Anti-Villain]] out to build a [[Utopia]]n Playland where creativity and originality can thrive.
== [[Real Life]] ==
=== General and Multimedia Examples ===
* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|Anti-digital piracy campaigns]] tend to fall under this, though they're usually counterproductive more often than not.
* During the 1920s, when [[Prohibition|alcohol was outlawed in the US]], some wineries would sell grape juice in wine bottles - peeling off the label would reveal instructions on the back that the drinker [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing|''wasn't'' supposed to follow]] in order to avoid turning to juice into wine.
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* [[Astroturf]]ing campaigns both online and offline are often a form of this, with online 'turfing usually employing [[Sock Puppet]] farms and the occasional real sympathetic volunteer.
=== [[Advertising]] ===
* The [[w:Daisy (advertisement)|"Daisy" advertisement]] - it ran ''once'' in 1964 during that year's presidential campaign. Its use of propaganda techniques is credited with costing Goldwater the presidency and giving [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] a landslide victory.
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* ''[[Super Size Me]]'' is Morgan Spurlock's documentary exposing the evils of junk food, and was meant to turn people against the fast food industry. It eventually became [[Counterproductive Propaganda]] as Spurlock's methods came under intense scrutiny - particularly the verifiability of his claims and the [[Fridge Logic]] of how a year-long diet consisting of food from a single restaurant would inevitably have adverse health effects.
* ''The Battle at Lake Changjin'' is a film allegedly about the 1950 Battle of the Chosin Reservoir during [[The Korean War]]. As one would expect from a film directly funded by the Chinese Communist Party as part of its 100th anniversary celebration about a conflict the Chinese forces performed remarkably poorly in, the depiction of events is blatantly counter-historic to the point of changing the battle's winner <ref>In reality UN forces escaped encirclement with minimal casualties, losing some territory, while a quarter of Chinese forces were killed in battle on top of nearly as many dying from non-battle conditions like the cold weather. In the film the battle is a clear cut Chinese victory.</ref>. Officially the movie is the highest grossing Chinese film ''ever'', but international analysis is extremely skeptical of the legitimacy of official ticket sales numbers.
* ''[[Sound of Freedom]]'' is on the surface a biopic about a former US agent-turned-[[Paedo Hunt|anti-pedophile activist]] Tim Ballard and his "Operation Underground Railroad" where he conducted anti-human trafficking operations in foreign countries, but progressive critics have accused it of both astroturfing (by way of inflating box office figures through a dubious referral scheme) and the film itself amounting to a QAnon equivalent of ''[[Birth of a Nation]]''. Not helping matters was allegations of hypocrisy and skeletons in the cast and crew's closets: Eduardo Verastegui, one of the film's main actors and producers, was [https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1683883804560355328 exposed] as having rubbed elbows with notorious [[Pedophile Priest]] Marcial Maciel, and Tim Ballard himself garnered [https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaqvn/tim-ballards-departure-from-operation-underground-railroad-followed-sexual-misconduct-investigation accusations] about having allegedly amassed a collection of child sexual abuse material himself.
* Conversely, some especially on the conservative side of the fence accuse the 2023 satirical fantasy film ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]'' of being an [[Anvilicious]] feminist propaganda piece. Some audiences, particularly in France and South Korea [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/why-barbie-movie-not-successful-south-korea-1235558639/ weren't as receptive] as the rest of the world with the film's themes and message.
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* ''[[The Aeneid]]'' was in part written to support the rule of Augustus, who had recently become the supreme power in [[Ancient Rome]].
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* The Hamas-sponsored children's talk show ''[[Tomorrow's Pioneers]]'' could be summed up as a twisted antisemitic, anti-Western, Islamist version of ''[[Sesame Street]]'', advocating violence to impressionable Palestinian children. Not all Palestinian parents bought into it though, as some felt it was needlessly crossing the line in their struggle for independence from Israel.
=== [[New Media]] ===
* The page image depicting [[Garfield]] originated from a [[Tumblr]] post made in 2018. [https://markvomit.tumblr.com/post/172083570225 Created by Mark Vomit], it has undergone a [[Memetic Mutation]] and spawned many variants. Ironically, Markvomit would go on to be caught up in the NFT craze, which billed itself as [[Department of Redundancy Department|"the definitive way of owning digital art"]] but in reality is a "pay to own a hyperlink associated with this image" deal.
* The realities of internet have led to a curious situation: it's very hard to block or actively counter propaganda, but at the same time, risk of backfire for the attacker is very high — most contemporary mass media platforms don't work well enough to avoid contempt even in the USA, and various attempts to implement "divide and conquer" policies (like Google's "this video is unavailable in your country" and Great Chinese Firewall) do more to annoy people than actually hiding anything from anyone who really wants to see it.
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* [[TruthorFiction]] is [https://www.truthorfiction.com/ a site dedicated to analyzing and debunking rumors] on the Web in a similar vein to [[Snopes]], but is a bit more thorough in their analysis (e.g. restoring assertions to their original context), and naturally has several posts [[Discussed Trope|discussing propaganda]] - including [https://www.truthorfiction.com/how-to-fight-disinformation-introduction-and-overview/ a set] [https://www.truthorfiction.com/how-to-fight-disinformation-part-i-firehosing/ of posts] [https://www.truthorfiction.com/how-to-fight-disinformation-part-ii-gaslighting/ written] by contributor Brooke Binkowski on recognizing and combating propaganda.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Ethnic Cleansing]]'' is a notorious example of white supremacist propaganda. As one guessed, a player can choose a neo-Nazi, a Skinhead, or a Klansman to travel and kill non-white races such as Blacks, before going on to the Jews. Though its effectiveness as a propaganda game is tempered by the fact that it is also notoriously
* Accusations of propaganda have been lobbed at the ''[[Call of Duty]]'' first-person shooter franchise more and more as newer entries are released - and with some of the more questionable decisions the series has made recently, it's a bit tough to argue against, such as the inclusion of former NRA president [[wikipedia:Oliver North|Oliver North]] (who gained notoriety in the 80s as one of those who took part in the Iran-Contra scandal
* Speaking of shooters, ''America's Army'' was designed from the onset as a recruitment tool for the US Army in the form of a first-person shooter video game, a medium most American youths are already familiar with.
* Similarly, the Hezbollah-sponsored ''Special Force'' (not to be confused with the online FPS of the same name, also going by the title ''Soldier Front'' in certain regions) was intended to portray Hezbollah insurgents as freedom fighters in their struggle against Israel.
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{{quote|[…] if the Soviet went out of their way to prevent western propaganda from reaching the Soviet people, the Russians are nowadays doing the exact opposite: [[Streisand Effect|they are going out of their way to make sure that western propaganda is immediately translated and beamed into every single Russian household.]] What I propose to do today is to share with you a few recent examples of what Russian households are regularly exposed to.
By now, you must have heard about the CNN report about how the evil Russkies used Pokemon to destabilize and subvert the US. [...]In Russia this report was in[sic] instant mega-success: the video was translated and rebroadcasted on every single TV channel. Margarita Simonian, the brilliant director of Russia Today, was asked during a live show ''“be truthful and confess – what is your relationship with Pokemon, do they work for you?”'' to which she replied ''“I feed them”'' – the audience burst in laughter.}}
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* [[Winsor McCay]] made ''[[The Sinking of the Lusitania]]'' to get the USA to abandon its policy of isolationism at the beginning of [[World War I]].
=== Other Media ===
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