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counterpropaganda

American  
[koun-ter-prop-uh-gan-duh] / ˈkaʊn tərˌprɒp əˈgæn də /

noun

  1. propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.


Etymology

Origin of counterpropaganda

counter- + propaganda

Example Sentences

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We are not optimistic about the effectiveness of traditional counterpropaganda efforts.

From Salon • May 27, 2025

Within the State Department exists a hub for coordinating overt U.S. counterpropaganda efforts worldwide: the Global Engagement Center.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2019

By the time Washington correspondents were sputtering angry explanations to their managing editors, Berlin had picked the Reuters dispatch, was industriously ladling out counterpropaganda.

From Time Magazine Archive

Camp 14 had cut Shin out of this propaganda loop, and he listened to the West’s counterpropaganda with the ears of a child— curious, confused, sometimes even bored, but always lacking in context.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

To develop such negativisms is always the aim of counterpropaganda.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra