{"id":269230,"date":"2016-09-24T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-us-propaganda-plays-in-syrian-war\/"},"modified":"2016-09-24T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T00:00:24","slug":"how-us-propaganda-plays-in-syrian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-us-propaganda-plays-in-syrian-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How US Propaganda Plays in Syrian War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. foreign policymakers have experimented at\u00a0planting propaganda in social media and then citing it as evidence to support their goals, a process now playing out in the Syrian \u201cregime change,\u201d as Rick Sterling explains.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

By Rick Sterling<\/p>\n

Manipulation of public perception has risen to a new level with the emergence of powerful social media. Multibillion-dollar corporate giants, such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, influence public perceptions, often via payments for \u201cboosting\u201d Facebook posts, paid promotion of Tweets, and biased results from search engines. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Marketing and advertising companies use social media to promote their clients, but so do U.S. foreign policy managers who hire or enlist these companies to influence public perceptions to support U.S. foreign policy goals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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