Facebook has faced considerable criticism over its role in the dissemination of false information, especially following the US presidential election, in which news hoaxes and partisan propaganda ran rampant on the site.
It has been a depressing experience to see some of those who were most furious at the global propaganda run by Bush and Rumsfeld now leading the cheers for a new campaign of misinformation, happy to be manipulated, content to recycle falsehood and distortion no matter what damage they may do.
In the 1990s it was revealed that as part of a propaganda campaign run against the Communist bloc, the CIA covertly nurtured and promoted American modern art, Abstract Expressionism in particular, including the work of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning.
The Swedish embassy in London believes the Daily Mail is running a propaganda campaign against Sweden's refugee policy.
That is being challenged by the Taliban chiefs, who are running a propaganda campaign in the villages warning people not to register or vote in what they say is an American-imposed process.
A major challenge facing policy reform on global warming is the virulent and hardened propaganda campaigns run by climate deniers.
The love felt for Bradbury by the rumbling machine of official Soviet propaganda, which ran the Soviet publishing industry, was, of course, not so selfless.
Don't believe your own propaganda, or run your company on those metrics.
These would join an existing global network of 10 propaganda websites, run by various combatant commands and made to look like legitimate news outlets, including CentralAsiaOnline.com, Sabahi which targets the Horn of Africa; an effort aimed at the Middle East known as Al-Shorfa.com; and another targeting Latin America called Infosurhoy.com.
Ed Miliband, who would apologise to Mitchell if he were an honourable man, ran a propaganda campaign under the headline: "Who do you trust – the police or Andrew Mitchell?" He castigated Cameron for choosing to "believe the word of a Tory MP over the word of a hard-working police officer".
The US ran a propaganda campaign through the Central Intelligence Agency CIAA) to enhance the size of the southward exodus.
