Propaganda

One of the greatest achievements of U.S. foreign policy has been targeted by a vicious disinformation campaign.

Trump’s reaction to Black Lives Matter protests caused a civil-military crisis at home. Will it harm U.S. soft power abroad?

A campaign linked to Russia aims to manipulate this year’s elections in the United States and Europe. Trump needs to let the intelligence professionals do their work.

The focus on foreign subversion ignores the damage being done at home.

As the Chinese Communist Party embarks on a presumptive goodwill campaign, few in the developing world are falling for it.

Stoltenberg says state-backed disinformation campaigns are making the health crisis worse.

Dubious and unfounded claims on the internet intended for domestic consumption are reaching far beyond their target audiences, allowing governments to spread disinformation cheaply and easily.

Western democracies may lose the coronavirus propaganda war, but China certainly won’t win it.

Millions of people stuck at home will turn to social media, where disinformation is rife. Radical Islamists and far-right groups are exploiting widespread confusion and fear to spread hate.

Beijing is using a social media platform it blocks to spread misinformation on the virus.

Beijing is using the pandemic to drive wedges between members of the European Union, and to advance its propaganda war against the United States.

Beijing’s propaganda blitz seeks to obscure the origins of the coronavirus.

Beijing isn’t interested in a tit-for-tat media feud with the United States—it’s going for escalation dominance.

The regime’s ideological army is spinning conspiracy theories even as it helps spread the virus among Iran’s long-suffering people.

Russia has started using the West’s own reporting against it. Here’s how to respond.

Without regulations that push search engines and social media companies to prioritize reliable and truthful sources of information, propaganda and censored content will dominate digital platforms.

Mandatory military training for students is becoming even more fiercely ideological.

Boris Johnson’s Brexit guru sees a quick departure from the EU as the best way to neutralize Britain’s far-right.

Putin’s propaganda portrayed Ukraine as a fascist state filled with anti-Semites. Despite Ukrainians’ election of a Jewish president, the image has stuck.

Propaganda is getting an upgrade with technological tricks.