psyop
Americannoun
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a military operation that uses psychological techniques to weaken, demoralize, or otherwise gain an advantage over an enemy or adversary: also, the use of such techniques domestically.
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something, especially a famous person or social media campaign that is used to change or shape the attitudes of the public.
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In the age of the internet and social media this type of propaganda campaign and psyop is much more powerful than even master Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels could have imagined in the 1940s and 1930s.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024
In fact, about six months after the first video was released, the command began surveying soldiers who applied for the psyop mission and got into the assessment and selection course.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024
The Army has said it intends to trim the number of psyop soldiers, but still has struggled to fill the ranks.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024
Whether kissing Raquel was a diabolical cover to distract from his best friend's affair, a nasty psyop against his ex, or just a routine, drunken lack of impulse control doesn't really matter.
From Salon ● May 26, 2023
“Of particular importance to psyop personnel may be publicly and commercially available data from social media platforms.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2017
There is no way to engage productively with psyops — you can't have a reasonable conversation with someone who is telling you that you are stupid or morally defective.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024
It’s particularly difficult for psyops soldiers, whose work is often less visible than that of the more celebrated Army commandos and not always understood.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024
Farrow can be disarmingly wry — “I knew my way around a paternity rumor” — even when writing about another shadowy psyops firm spying on him and other journalists.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
Its expertise was in “psychological operations” – or psyops – changing people’s minds not through persuasion but through “informational dominance”, a set of techniques that includes rumour, disinformation and fake news.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2018
What if Russia had read its psyops data wrong and pivoted its resources to Snapchat?
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2017
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