If you can spot the propaganda, it has already lost.
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Propaganda examples from the collection
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American propaganda, in seven panels shows seven U.S. objects in the words printed on them, from 1754 to 2008.
United KingdomRemember Belgium — Enlist To-Day
German EmpireHelft uns siegen! Zeichnet die Kriegsanleihe (Help Us Win! Subscribe to the War Loan)
United StatesWe Can Do It!
FranceProclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)Content note
United StatesZachary Taylor, the People's Choice for 12th President (Currier), 1848
United StatesGrand banner of the radical democracy, for 1864
United StatesRepublican Candidates for President and Vice-President: James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur (A. S. Seer engraving)
United StatesThe consumer consumed
United StatesCoronation of the autocrat of protection (Puck)
United States"Negro Rule" vampire cartoon with sworn affidavitContent note
United States"As to Japanese Exclusion" (Puck cover, 13 March 1907)Content note
Austria HungarySlovenec, Nr. 168, front page (Ljubljana, 27 July 1914): "Avstrija se je našla" and "Živela Avstrija! Doli s Srbijo!"Content note
Austria HungaryA diadalmas magyar és bolgár seregek egyesülése Kladovónál (The Union of the Victorious Hungarian and Bulgarian Armies at Kladovo), bilingual postcard
United KingdomProclamation of the Irish Republic (Poblacht na hÉireann), Easter Rising
United StatesFarmers Must Organize.
United StatesJoin: All You Need Is a Heart and a Dollar
United StatesThe World Cannot Live Half Slave, Half Free: The Prussian Blot
Kingdom of ItalyArmi della morte - armi per la vita! Sottoscrivete al prestito della vittoria (Weapons of death, weapons for life! Subscribe to the Victory Loan)
United StatesFight or Buy Bonds: Third Liberty Loan
United StatesMy Soldier (Third Liberty Loan)
United States(Soldier Charging Through Barbed Wire), original drawing
United StatesWhich? Soldier or Mechanic: Enlist in the First Replacement Regiment of Engineers and Be Both
Hungarian Soviet RepublicBitangok! Ezt akartátok? (Scoundrels! Is this what you wanted?), Hungarian Soviet Republic poster, 1919Content note
Weimar RepublicDie Rote Fahne, Nr. 29, front page (Berlin-Neukölln, 13 March 1920): "Sowjetrußlands Friedenswille"
Soviet UnionЛенин. Спи, вождь! Спи, учитель. Спи, боец (Lenin. Sleep, Leader! Sleep, Teacher. Sleep, Fighter)
Soviet UnionLong Live the First of May: Under the Lenin Banner of the Comintern, Forward!
United StatesThe Year's Best Idea!
SpainLa Vanguardia, picture page (Barcelona, 26 May 1937): "La bárbara destrucción de Guernica"![Brazil [2]](collection/images/brazil-tourism-rio-sugarloaf-1939-640.jpg)
BrazilBrazil [2]
Canada"Daddy Helps Build Them" To Protect Our Freedom
CanadaOur Objective 00 Members
CanadaWallace Reyburn Says...
CzechoslovakiaVaried Scenery - Czechoslovakia
United KingdomJohn Bull Dips Deep into His Pocket! Indirect Taxation in Great Britain
United KingdomOrder it now! Store Fuel for Next Winter
United KingdomAllies in the Shipyards
United KingdomBlood donors are needed urgently to save lives (Emergency Blood Transfusion Service)
United KingdomDans le Désert Libyen - des Tanks, de Construction Américaine, ont des Équipages Fournis par un Fameux Régiment de Cavalerie Irlandaise
United KingdomGoing Ashore? Keep what you know to yourself (English, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, French)
United KingdomMightier Yet! Britain's Mechanised Army grows stronger every day![Post Office Telegraphists at War Work - Telegraph Less [1]](collection/images/uk-post-office-telegraphists-telegraph-less-prd317-1939-640.jpg)
United KingdomPost Office Telegraphists at War Work - Telegraph Less [1]
United KingdomSmaller Parcels Quicker Service!
United KingdomTough Tactics
United KingdomWhat is Wanted from You
Mexico¿Y Tú Qué Haces por Tu Patria?
FinlandОни так веселы потому что вырвались к счастливой жизни (They Are So Cheerful Because They Broke Free to a Happy Life): Finnish leaflet for Red Army soldiers
United StatesIn the Saddle Again (Preakness)
United StatesAmerica's Answer! Production
Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches
'This log cabin was the first building erected on the North Bend', Whig print by T. Sinclair, 1840
Platforms illustratedContent note
Our nation's choice, James G. Blaine, John A. Logan
'Protection and sound money' shield placard
蘇報 Subao, daily, front page (Shanghai, 18 June 1903)Content note
"Ned med militarismen - Leve socialismen" propaganda stamp (Norway, 1914)
The New York Times, daily edition, front page (New York, May 8, 1915)
Die Fahnen flattern hoch im Wind! (The Flags Flutter High in the Wind!)
Member of the United States Food Administration (Window Card)
The Black Stork (cinema advertisement)Content note
Halt the Hun! Buy U.S. Government Bonds, Third Liberty LoanContent note
Saving Daylight! Set the Clock Ahead One Hour and Win the War!Content note
Your War Savings Pledge: Our Boys Make Good Their Pledge, Are You Keeping Yours?
L'Ardito front page marking the 15 April 1919 attack on the Avanti! offices, MilanContent note
東江陳軍餉械 英國 (Chen's East River Army: Pay and Arms, Britain), Canton newspaper cartoon
閩浙贛省蘇維埃銀行壹圓 (Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Soviet Bank, one-yuan note, 1933)
Dit is te bereiken: een eervol bestaan, een behoorlijk tractement (This Can Be Achieved: An Honourable Existence, a Decent Salary), Royal Netherlands East Indies Army recruitment
Buy Shells for the Oerlikon Gun From Your Druggist
Roll 'Em Out!
A 1,000 Years of History - Czechoslovakia
Jugoslavia's Merchant Seamen Fight...
Straight to the Point - Zinc!
Blood Donors Wanted - Your Blood Can Save the Life of Someone...Somewhere
Fight in the Streets - Belong to Your Savings Group
Immunisation is the Only Safeguard Against Diphtheria - Now is the Time to Have it Done
Now That Our Men Have Landed on Enemy Soil Surely No One Will Endanger Their Supply of Vital Munitions by Taking Unnecessary Journeys
The Small Holding with the BIG Interest: National Savings Stamps
Volunteer for Flying Duties
Ventilate Your Quarters
In the Mediterranean, British Submarines Have Caused Great Havoc to Axis Shipping - Back Them Up!
Always on the alert: U.S. Marines
Can you use it? Learn how...now
Don't tell Aunty & Uncle or Cousin Jane
Freedom of Worship
How to Recap With F Grade Capping Stock
Keep 'em Rolling! (Ships)
More! More of everything, quick!
Praise the Lord this saves us ammunitionContent note
Someone spoke out of turn...
The Straggler Invites Attack
Alert! Your skill and devotion will win the war
'She Sails at Midnight...' He Talked... This Happened
Extent of participation in payroll savings plans for War Savings Bonds
How to Fight Fire Bombs
Let's go, everybody! Keep 'em firing!
Play safe. Here's the whole story. Teamwork wins
Scrap
Fence or guard all openings![Un Parachutiste de l'Armée [An Army Paratrooper]](collection/images/us-ociaa-un-parachutiste-de-larmee-french-1942-640.jpg)
Un Parachutiste de l'Armée [An Army Paratrooper]![War Planes [Blank]](collection/images/us-war-planes-blank-roosevelt-1942-640.jpg)
War Planes [Blank]
Attention, Women! Join the WAAC
Czechoslovakia (illustrated information map sheet, blue printing)
Forest fires aid the enemy, be sure your match is out
How retirement and withholding deductions affect your pay
Keep Punching ... in the Battle of Production: Beat Your PromiseContent note
On the offensive: Do more for victory in 1943!
Please, Mister, don't be careless. Prevent forest fires. Greater danger than ever!
The state of this nation is good
"December 7th 1941 - Remember!!" (Dorie Miller at Pearl Harbor)
Forged Winterhilfswerk stamp booklet (British black propaganda for Germany)Content note
Are you wearing the RIGHT safety equipment?
Defective Tools Cause Injuries: Turn 'em in!
Give us more C-54's
It's You ... and the Rest of the TeamContent note
Markings of U.S. chemical munitions
Right guys... use tools right
Seeing It Through (Bus driver)![The 25 Club [7]: War Savings Stamp booklet, April-May 1945 calendar pages](collection/images/canada-25-club-stamp-booklet-april-may-1945-640.jpg)
The 25 Club [7]: War Savings Stamp booklet, April-May 1945 calendar pages
A Lifetime Education Free for High School Graduates Who Qualify: U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Έλληνες προσοχή! Όσοι αγαπούν αληθινά την Ελλάδα ψηφίζουν Λαϊκόν Κόμμα (Greeks, beware! Those who truly love Greece vote Populist Party)
The Last Days of the Devils (Chinese poster distributed in Taiwan)
44 Nations Condemn Red China (Thai poster distributed in Thailand)
Anh Phú tòng quân (Brother Phú joins the army) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #5)
"Seite an Seite mit der Sowjetunion für den Frieden der Welt": sign on a farmhouse, Schenkenberg
快愉 / 悲痛 (Joy / Grief) (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)
U.N. Day Poster #16: Sowing Seeds of Peace in Human Hearts (Japanese poster distributed in Asia)
Operation Freedom small poster 224f: cheerful sailor and orange (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
Operation Brotherhood poster, sheet 1 of 4 (English poster distributed in Manila)
Smothered!
A.U.A. Language Center poster 83j: t-d (English-language poster distributed in Bangkok)
Army information poster, Bulletin No. 5: Amphibious Regiment and returnees (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
Vietnam Five Thousand Years of Culture poster (Vietnamese, distributed in Saigon)
American Political System exhibit poster (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)
Actualidades Mundiales poster, No. 63 (Spanish world-news map, Latin America)
"Der Schutzpatron der Westberliner Spionageorganisation Lemmer": ADN photomontage
U.S. Labor Day poster, AFL-CIO greeting (Spanish poster distributed in Latin America)
Những người Mỹ tới đây là bạn. Chúng ta hãy hợp tác với họ (Americans Come as Friends. Let's Cooperate With Them)
Some Pictures of the Good Friends of the Poor School Boys in Soctrang
They're the reason we're in Vietnam
The Common Struggle: Philippines
Al Hayat fi Amrika No. 33 promotion poster (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)
Heraldo Grafico poster, July 1965 issue (Spanish wall newspaper distributed in San Salvador)
Sanitation Campaign in Gia Dinh Province
Sa Đéc phát triển đời mới (Sadec - New Life Development)
The People Vote: The World Press Appraises Vietnam's National Elections (Vietnam Through Foreign Eyes, No. 5), page 5
Quyền lợi khi hồi chánh (Benefits on Rallying), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-063-70
"Atdheu e mbron i gjithë populli": mural of armed figures on an apartment block, 1978
Partido por la Democracia leaflet: a giant "NO" beside five grievances (1988 plebiscite)
'No Way. You will not make Australia home' posterWhy we built this
Read morePropaganda works best when nobody notices it. A 1915 recruiting poster and this week's wave of coordinated accounts lean on the same few moves: a fear, a flag, a crowd that seems to agree, an enemy with a face. Once you can name those moves, they lose much of their grip.
Propaganda techniques
Technique map All 28 techniquesEvery object and brief here is tagged with the techniques it uses. A technique is a technique regardless of who uses it.
Classical
Institute for Propaganda Analysis (1937) seven devices and close descendants. Work on emotion, identity, and selective evidence.
Rhetorical
Argument-form tricks that survive even when the speaker is named.
Operational
Campaign architecture: how a message is staged, sourced, or made to look like consensus.
Computational
Volume, automation, synthetic production, or poisoning of ranking and retrieval systems.
Latest from the watch
Case studies All 182 briefsThe live sensor, not the archive.
- Sep 30, 2026ImpersonatedGraphika and Code for Africa mapped 44 Russia-aligned ghost bylines in African outlets; Africa Center restated the Nigeria Daily Post laundering loop on 29 September.
- Sep 29, 2026ImpersonatedANO Dialog, as named in Meta's H2 2026 CIB report, rented local media brands and AI talking-heads to boost Strong Armenia while a 28 September NGO file restated the wider Russian stack.
- Sep 29, 2026IdentifiedChina's Foreign Ministry used a one-sided White House readout to treat opposing Taiwan independence as the correct U.S. position after talks Trump's fact sheet did not mention.
- Sep 29, 2026IdentifiedUK Prime Minister Andy Burnham used UNGA catastrophe language to sell a National Centre for Information Defence as the remedy for a poisonous tide.
- Sep 29, 2026IdentifiedJustice Department reminder named public demonstrations among activities a foreign power's agent must register, drawing warnings that protest could be read as unregistered propaganda.
Campaigns
All dossiers- Brazil's WhatsApp and platform messaging networks, 2018 to 2022, and the state's responseUnidentified
- SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica: behavioural targeting, the Kogan data harvest and the regulatory recordUnidentified
- CENTCOM / Pentagon “gc_” newsroom networkUnidentified
- PRC-linked AI content farms targeting TaiwanUnidentified
- U.S. Committee on Public Information (Creel Committee), 1917-1919Identified
- Gulf state-linked Twitter networks and the 2017 Gulf rift information war (2014-2020)Impersonated
- Hanover Institute for Public Policy (LaPam / Piro / Havas)Unidentified
- Indian Chronicles: revived NGOs, look-alike outlets and a newswire relay (2005 to 2023)Unidentified
- Information Research Department (UK Foreign Office), 1948-1977Unidentified
- Internet Research Agency (Russian operation aimed at US audiences, 2014 to 2018)Impersonated
- Iran-origin Meta CIB — fake US activist personas (H2 2026)Impersonated
- The Islamic State media apparatus and the effort to dismantle it (2013-2019)Identified
- Operation Matryoshka / Overload — German state elections 2026Impersonated
- Pentagon retired military analyst outreach (2002-2008)Unidentified
- Paid and volunteer online influence networks in Philippine politics, 2016 to 2022Unidentified
- Russia Social Design Agency — Projects 2026Unidentified
- South Africa's Department of Information secret projects, 1972-1979 ("Muldergate")Unidentified
- US Cigarette Makers' Joint Doubt Programme (1953 to 2006)Unidentified
What counts as propaganda here
Communication designed to shape belief or behavior by bypassing or overwhelming reasoned evaluation, through emotion, identity, repetition, omission, authority, or volume, rather than by making a claim that can survive open scrutiny.