Beware of Propaganda By Hank Silverberg It's out there, and if you are not careful you will become it's next victim. There has been a lot of talk about "fake news" in the last three years, but propaganda can have a bigger impact. Political campaigns have used it for years, but this election cycle the propaganda being put out by the right wing, the GOP, the President's re-election campaign and foreign governments is much worse than usual. propaganda [ˌpräpəˈɡandə] NOUN information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. They are using terms like "Socialist," "Marxist" and "extremist" to describe a plethora of people who are no such thing. It's meant to confuse you and influence your vote based on disinformation. So I thought I would give you all a crash course in how to decipher fact from fiction (call it "Political Science 101"