Psychological warfare, communication research, media & academia
Peloni: Prof. Gil-White provides a much needed review of the development and deployment of the psychological warfare in the US. The public-private manipulation of the American people has long been a feature of American society.
How psychological warfare became the science of ´communication´ and swallowed our meaning-making institutions
Francisco Gil-White | July 12, 2024

- In the 1930s, a large scientific project studied how the mass media could influence democratic citizenries.
- These scientists were then recruited to the US government’s psychological warfare programs in WWII.
- After the war, the same scientists became university professors of ‘communications,’ clandestinely funded by US Intelligence.













