It can be very hard to distinguish these two concepts. Instead, it is more useful to understand the agenda of the person doing persuasion. Do their interests

It can be very hard to distinguish these two concepts. Instead, it is more useful to understand the agenda of the person doing persuasion. Do their interests align with yours? What are they trying to achieve? That's a good way to get insight into whether you're being 'manipulated' to do things that are not in your interest. Because the agenda of an information source is key, that makes it vitally important to understand who owns and manages the outlets you get information from. In today's world, because of changes in news profitability and thus the number of financially-independent news outlets, knowing the agendas of ownership, management, and funders of news sources is absolutely critical.