It's a curious question to ask in 2022. If this were 1970s....I'd say most of society would have a automatic sense to accept what the government or major news organizations said....as 'true'. In today's world? Skepticism is a major part of our lives, and trust just isn't the same as it was in the 1970s.
This week, I sat and watched a Russian piece (video) where Putin met up with mothers of soldiers deployed. It just seemed odd. About 24 hours later, several of the mothers were identified as members of the government or just plain actors. Whole thing....was staged.
I noticed this week that Deutsche Welle went out and did a fact-check of the word....'Ukrainian Nazis'. The question was....is any part of this Putin accusation true? Why drag this up? Well....in the eastern part of Germany....there's probably 25-percent of the population who believes some element of the Ukrainian Nazi story.
I also noticed this past week that Russia declared a whole bunch of gay-propaganda to exist, and gave various examples of that.
Meta (formerly Facebook) got into the news this week.....accusing the US military of setting up propaganda-creation situations. Some elements of the accusation appear legit.
So I come to this observation.....if you were around in 1970....you probably got a dose of once or twice a week of propaganda, and you could handle that. Today? I would imagine in a 24-hour day....a normal guy is probably getting a minimum of forty bits of propaganda....some relating to governments or political agendas....some relating to banks or finance.....some relating to Hollywood or sports.
Maybe if you had time...you could associate things into a category, but the pace of things is making this an impossible task. So your only 'weapon' is your skeptical nature and just identifying all of the crap as bogus propaganda.
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