Awareness

Awareness is defined as the knowledge or perception of a situation or fact. Someone can be socially aware of what's going on around them. Someone can be aware of when and where the cars are coming from as they are crossing the street. Someone can be aware that they need to be careful while using a cutting knife in the kitchen. However, it doesn't end here.

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Propaganda is something used by many companies. This is a way of advertising a product or service with bias, and can sometimes even be misleading. For example, President Donald Trump's "slogan" was "Make America Great Again!" However, what does he exactly mean by "great"? Politics is a great example of people using propaganda to get their way, especially with presidential elections. Some people may have read Trump's slogan and thought, I want America to be great so I'll vote for him! However, this may be misleading. I tend to stay out of politics, so I'll just leave it at this: this slogan was created to advertise himself in his campaign which obviously was biased and misleading, much like every other candidate.

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Disinformation is defined as false information which is deliberately spread with an intention to mislead. An article from Atlantic states that the 2020 election will be a "war of disinformation". Although it is sad, the world today has become too good at spreading false information. We see it everywhere. Nothing can even be trusted anymore. Any news article kids see on the Internet, we are told to not trust. An environment in America has been created where we do not trust the information we receive from one another. In an article from Buzzfeed, a survey was taken based on people and their relationship to the information they find online. 18% of people said they trust news on Facebook most of the time. 44% of people said they rarely, or never, trust news on Facebook. 30% of people said they trust it half of the time. These numbers show that we live in a world where disinformation is spread often with the intentions of misleading the readers or to even stir up some drama.

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According to USAGM, the Smith-Mundt Act allows The U.S. Agency for Global Media and the media organizations that it supports to make their content available in broadcast quality upon request within the United States. It supposedly takes modern content platforms that are not restricted by national boundaries, such as the Internet and satellite broadcasting into count.

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Total Information Awareness was a mass detection program meant to gather information about people in order to prevent terrorist incidents from happening. The Total Information Awareness later turned into the Terrorist Information Awareness.

A False Flag is an operation in which a deception is created to create an appearance that a group is responsible for one activity, to take attention away from what they are actually responsible for. For example, there are conspiracies that the COVID-19 outbreak was to distract Americans from what the government is actually doing.

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Five Eyes was an intelligence alliance between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. It started during World War II, when the Allies needed to lay out their goals for what they wanted the world to look like post-war. In 2013, documents were leaked revealing that Five Eyes has been spying on each other's citizens and sharing the information with one another.