I'd define propaganda as misconstruing the truth towards political ends. If it's commercial ends rather than political, it's false advertising. If it's not misconstruing, then it's advertising or public communications. Just to set a baseline.

I can't find what your sources are defining as propaganda from a brief look, so let's compare to my definition.

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You define it wrong. Propaganda is the same thing as public relations. Public relations is literally the American name for it per Bernays who coined both terms. He believed propaganda is a good thing but the term became loaded so he renamed it in a classic public relations style.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Okay cool, so your definition of propaganda is any communication for political ends?

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Every public communication is propaganda, politcal content is irelevant. It depends on the goals of said proaganda if it is bad or not.