ABSTRACT
Is propaganda by any other name still propaganda? This chapter lays out the setting for considering the global entrenchment of propagandistic logics and practices in today’s information environments. It also considers why this entrenchment is happening without the critical attention it deserves. At a time in which practices of obfuscation like disinformation, misinformation, fakery, and lying riddle the so-called post-truth environments where information resides, there is a tendency to appraise them as a direct outgrowth of digital technology and to see them as the obvious result of stridently polarized political climates. There is also a tendency, particularly in democratic regimes, not to call them propaganda, despite the fact that in form and content that is precisely what they are.
