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Richard Stengel, once the fourth-ranking official in the US State Department and a former editor at Time, has seemingly backed the use of government propaganda against citizens during a discussion about \u2018fake news.\u2019 <\/p>\n
The former US under secretary of state in the Obama administration, who was also the managing editor of Time magazine from 2006 to 2013, has made a career of writing about disinformation use. In his time in government, Stengel used a State Department blog to describe Russia Today as operating a \u201cdisinformation campaign.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Stengel\u2019s boss at the time, John Kerry, went one step further by calling RT a \u201cpropaganda bullhorn.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n READ MORE \u2018Propaganda bullhorn\u2019: John Kerry attacks RT during Ukraine address<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In a university workshop organized by the Council On Foreign Relations, a US think tank for journalists, educators and business executives, Stengel now appears to approve of propaganda, which is the dissemination of biased or misleading information with the goal of influencing a certain agenda.<\/p>\n \u201cBasically every country creates their own narrative story,\u201d<\/em> Stengel said. \u201cMy old job at the State Department was what people used to joke [call] the chief propagandist job. I\u2019m not against propaganda, every country does it and they have to do it to their own population and I don\u2019t necessarily think it\u2019s that awful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n At a Council on Foreign Relations forum about “fake news,” former Editor at Time Magazine Richard Stengel directly states that he supports the use of propaganda on American citizens – then shuts the session down when challenged about how propaganda is used against the third world pic.twitter.com\/ClAT5POv7G<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 William Craddick (@williamcraddick) May 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The comment didn\u2019t go down well with one audience member, however, who said that the US media \u201cflipped\u201d<\/em> on the developing world. \u201cWe lived with, for many, many years, a master narrative that was and still is propaganda,\u201d<\/em> the man said.<\/p>\n The elites propaganda is not the normal propaganda, they have researched how to practically assault the readers mind and crush your spatial intelligence, this is fully intentional that\u2019s not propaganda that\u2019s weaponized info…<\/p>\n \u2014 katy turner (@katyWrightsNC99) May 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Propaganda means fraud. They should have not talked about “propaganda” but about “deceiving masses”. \u2014 Sorena Meshki (@MakePplSmileX) May 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n What else would you expect from the Council on Foreign Relations? 🤔<\/p>\n\n
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