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Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
Propaganda is most impactful when people don't think it's propaganda, and most decisive when it's censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.
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Society, Policy & CultureHistory & Retro Computing2022
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jan 7, 2022 | Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda by giuliomagnifico | 489 | 537 |
| Sep 6, 2023 | The Pentagon and CIA have shaped thousands of movies into effective propaganda by myshpa | 173 | 164 |
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Linked from 3 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Jan 2022 to Sep 2026.
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- like_any_other · Sep 1, 2026
- myshpa · Sep 6, 2023
- gmuslera · Jan 8, 2022
