You’d think the use of propaganda would have declined in the Information Age, since fact checking is far easier than ever before, but the spin doctors have kept the misinformation flowing and thinly veiled propaganda still constantly pops up online.
However, before people had all that info at our fingertips they still should have known better than to believe the BS that was being spread around by these 6 Propaganda Campaigns That Backfired Hilariously.
Sadly, people were still willing to buy into the hype and believe that captured pilots were eager to renounce their allegiance because Saddam Hussein was so powerful. They believed the baby face of Nazi Germany was a pure blooded Aryan, and that Nepali Gurkhas were coked out fiends who had to be kept on chains between conflicts.