> Fwiw: all governments engage in propaganda, and people are typically biased towards that produced by their own country/culture Honestly, probably all people

> Fwiw: all governments engage in propaganda, and people are typically biased towards that produced by their own country/culture Honestly, probably all people engage in propaganda. IMHO, that impulse is the raw fuel for crowdsourced knowledge sites like Wikipedia: people are motivated to edit it to make it conform to their personal bias. Their "solution" to that is to force people to appeal to "reliable sources" (authorities) that reflect their bias instead of injecting it directly, but just shifts the problem a little bit. > You'd think we'd eventually realize this after a century or so and rise above the nonsense, but propaganda is too powerful I guess? Bias and self-serving hypocrisy are tendencies that are too powerful.