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Propaganda by intergovernmental organizations

Nature

Information issued by intergovernmental organizations tends to promote or support the group identity. The main media used for propaganda is the press and also international cultural exchange exhibitions, delegations and conferences. The group may seek to promote a political bias or an economic community. Propaganda may serve to increase international tension and the possibility of conflict, which may include subversive activities and terrorism.

Incidence

in 2020, the United Nations recruited no fewer than 110,000 so-called "digital first responders." These people had one mission: to discredit anyone who supposedly spreads "fake news": defined as "anything that goes against the UN ideology." Incidentally, almost every major global institution recruits such collaborators; every day, hundreds of thousands of people are busy on the internet trying to influence your opinion by artificially presenting certain opinions as popular and "right" and others as reprehensible and wrong. The techniques range from artificially hiring a virtual or real crowd ("rent a crowd," a form of "astroturfing") to give preferred opinions an attractive aura of popularity to doing the exact opposite by slowing down likes on social media ("shadowbanning") to make unwanted opinions appear unpopular and thus unattractive.

Broader

Propaganda
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Official secrecy
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Value

Propaganda
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Subject
  • Communication » Influencing
  • Government » Intergovernmental
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    Last update
    Mar 18, 2025