Propaganda used to promote dissatisfaction among a nation’s citizens and undermine government authority. • Defamatory propaganda is common in wartime but is also used in peacetime as a means of incitement.
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propaganda. Int’l law. 1. The systematic dissemination of doctrine, rumor, or selected information to promote or injure a particular doctrine, view, or cause. 2. The ideas or information so disseminated. • The word propaganda originated as an abbreviated form of Congregatio de propaganda fide, a committee (of cardinals) for propagating the (Christian) faith. defamatory propaganda.