propagandist

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He began as a Royal Academician, became an ardent revolutionary, barely escaped execution after the fall of Robespierre, went on to be Napoleon’s chief propagandist, and ended life a political exile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

President Vladimir Putin, deputy head of the national security council Dmitry Medvedev, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Russian propagandist TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov and pro-Russian war commentators known as "Z-bloggers" are all cited.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025

They included Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who wrote in his diary in 1924: “I believe in the inner, but not the factual, truth of The Protocols.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

The cult leader, like the authoritarian propagandist, uses that insight to make people dependent on their power.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2024

Some theologians were not content with moral certainty: in 1689 the Presbyterian propagandist Richard Baxter discussed the concept of evidence at great length, and decided that the only sort of evidence that counted was Evidence-Perspicuity.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton