Propaganda

Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective & may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to make-up an emotional rather than the rational response to the information that is being presented. Propaganda can be found in news together with journalism, government, advertising, entertainment, education, and activism and is often associated with the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical thing which is prepared by governments as component of war efforts, political campaigns, health campaigns, revolutionaries, big businesses, ultra-religious organizations, the media, andindividuals such(a) as soapboxers.

In the 20th century, the English term propaganda was often associated with a manipulative approach, but historically, propaganda has been a neutral descriptive term of any the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object that promotesopinions or ideologies. Equivalent non-English terms earn also largely retained the original neutral connotation.

A wide range of materials and media are used for conveying propaganda messages, which changed as new technologies were invented, including paintings, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, films, radio shows, TV shows, and websites. More recently, the digital age has condition rise to new ways of disseminating propaganda, for example, bots and algorithms are currently being used to create computational propaganda and fake or biased news and spread it on social media.

Etymology

Propaganda is a sophisticated Latin word, ablative singular feminine of the gerundive form of , meaning 'to spread' or 'to propagate', thus propaganda means for that which is to be propagated. Originally this word derived from a new administrative body of the Catholic Church congregation created in 1622 as part of the Counter-Reformation, called the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide Congregation for Propagating the Faith, or informally simply Propaganda. Its activity was aimed at "propagating" the Catholic faith in non-Catholic countries.

From the 1790s, the term began being used also to refer to propaganda in secular activities. The term began taking a pejorative or negative connotation in the mid-19th century, when it was used in the political sphere.