I'm curious: for how many people is this news? For those more inquiring you should look into the Smith-Mundt Act, which makes it illegal for the US Government to directly propagandize the American people; it was effectively repealed in 2012.
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That was never a problem. All american propaganda outlets are sponsored by NGOs.
The main advantage is that propaganda suddenly looks like your local news.
Yes.
Propaganda is information you are told that is crafted to inculcate a particular belief, whether or not the information and/or belief are true. (Derived from the old latin name of the institution in the Vatican bureaucracy responsible for spreading the faith, propaganda fidei.)
All advertising and persuasive speech is propaganda. Some of it uses true information, and some of it is intended to spread true beliefs.
False information is information which isn’t true, no matter what the purpose of it being presented to you is.
Yes, not all propaganda is false. Propaganda uses both truth and lies freely, choosing whichever is most convenient for the narrative being promoted. Often propaganda tells you things which are true, while simply omitting other truths. Propaganda also uses statements which are neither true nor false, e.g. subjective value claims.
From the other angle, not all false information is propaganda. This statement is false: My hair is red. That's false, but it's not propaganda. Propaganda and false information are overlapping sets, but neither is a strict subset of the other.
most propaganda has an obvious assumption/take included with it; "China is taking our work, so hate China." "While our troops are fighting for freedom against Evil Dictator in Etcistan."
most false information has an open premise ; "could be aliens. how do you know the world isn't flat, have you seen it? she could be a lizard person.."
but to be clear : both are used by governments to enact methods of power and control.