Who decides what is propaganda? Here is my favorite piece of "counter-propaganda": http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/mar/31/facebook-posts

Who decides what is propaganda? Here is my favorite piece of "counter-propaganda": http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/mar/31/facebook-posts/viral-meme-says-united-states-has-invaded-22-count/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/mar/... Why is this my favorite? Because it defines a word which has an obvious meaning, "invasion" in this case in such a way that it excludes situations that any reasonable person would identify as a referent of that word. For example, according to this article, the United States didn't invade Afghanistan. It also does not count use of air power to enforce a no-fly zone as an invasion. This definition is very in tune with the legal and linguistic shenanigans the US goes through in order to justify their military intervention all over the world. Fact checking can be propaganda too. The idea that the United States' propaganda is justified and others' is not is pure doublethink. This bill claims that it'll preserve democracy by giving the US government the power and resources to create its own propaganda networks (which, by the way, it has been running clandestinely for decades anyway). The people who will enshrine totalitarianism in the law will do it while honestly believing they are saving something they call freedom.