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Do you also think the US army should stop running recruitment ads targeting teens? What about BP advertisements which are really just to get political support?
by marricks 5y ago
Do you also think the US army should stop running recruitment ads targeting teens? What about BP advertisements which are really just to get political support?
What is political propaganda is a very… political question.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago> What is political propaganda is a very… political question. Good thing that's not the issue here. The issue is where it comes from. It can be political- I don't like that it's foreign. I don't think freedom of speech means letting known foreign propaganda run hog wild on your platforms and control your information.
- marricks 5y agoThis thread was about any political propaganda on Facebook, but if you want to narrow down the discussion... Some of us are old enough to remember when the US Intelligence community lied through NYTimes and NPR to drag us into the Iraq war. (Also the first Golf war. Also the Vietnam war.) If you only care about foreign propaganda you’re still going to have a lot of evil done. And given that the US is the worlds last super power our own internal propaganda machine is pretty important.
- Mordisquitos 5y ago>Do you also think the US army should stop running recruitment ads targeting teens? What about BP advertisements which are really just to get political support? I can't speak for the previous commenter, but I do not understand the implied complexity of bringing up those two examples. I would absolutely agree with removing them, just as much as removing propaganda ads from Chinese state media.
- marricks 5y agoMe too, I just don’t know if everyone else reading connects those dots.