By Graham Vanbergen
– Propaganda is described as “information, especially of a biased or
misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.”
Black propaganda is “false information and material that purports to be
from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the
opposing side, typically used to vilify, embarrass, or misrepresent the
enemy.”
When these individual principles of communication clash to manipulate
the discourse in democracy what you get is an underlying confusion by
the population – in other words, people are not sure what to believe any
more. This was evident in both Britain’s EU referendum and the US
election.
A prime example for this moment: Google ‘Syria False Flag’ and the
fight between mainstream and alternative media has never been hotter.
For the rest of us though – confusion.
Propaganda being used on Britain’s citizens is not knew by any means.
It is used incessantly today by the government simply to change public
opinion in order to get an ideology such as austerity to be at least
palatable by the electorate. But are darker forces now at work? Dark
Money and Black propaganda are terms that have moved to the mainstream
narrative of late with technology its facilitator. In the meantime, MI6
known for meddling with public information continues with
its psychological information battle to distort the truth adding ever
greater complexity to the headlines.
