Obama gets it. (Because *of course* @BarackObama would get it.)
'If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what's true from what's false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn't work. And by definition our democracy doesn't work.'
During the US terrorist wars on Nicaragua & El Salvador in the 1980s, the Reagan admin created an "Office of Public Diplomacy" to propagandize Americans
A US official described it candidly as "a huge psychological operation of the kind the military conducts" in "enemy territory"