That's very culture-dependent. The PRC has a literal Propaganda Department of the CCP called so in Chinese and until recently in English (It is now called the "

That's very culture-dependent. The PRC has a literal Propaganda Department of the CCP called so in Chinese and until recently in English (It is now called the "Publicity Department" probably because they've figured out how negative "propaganda" sounds in English). It is just accepted that the CCP will provide support for their positions ("propaganda") without providing the "other side". And Vietnam still calls their version a "propaganda department". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicity_Department_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicity_Department_of_the_Ch... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Propaganda_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Propaganda_Department_...