Forensic Research Archive of Manipulation and Exploitation
Propaganda, catalogued by how it works.
A public archive of propaganda, each piece tagged with the techniques it uses. The collection and the case studies are the vault. The watch is a weather station, live and ongoing since 8 September 2026, not the building.
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Helft uns siegen! Zeichnet die Kriegsanleihe (Help Us Win! Subscribe to the War Loan)
We Can Do It!
A nova espada que o governo pretende apresentar ao exército (The New Sword the Government Means to Present to the Army)Content note
The Great Battle of Ansong Ford: The Valor of Captain Matsuzaki
日清戰爭笑樂画會 (Comics of the Sino-Japanese War): 黄海のきづ and 尻へ帆 (Wounds of the Yellow Sea; Sails on the Rear)
"A Sacrifice to Aguinaldo's Ambition" (commercial stereograph, 1899)Content note
"The White Man's Burden (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)" (Judge, 1899)Content note
Notice of Justice: Aguinaldo's decree of 3 August 1900 paying 'imperialist soldiers' for surrendered riflesContent note
"The Aguinaldo Guard" (Puck, 1900)
¡¡Glorias de México!! Porfirio Díaz y Ramón Corral, electos por el voto unánime del pueblo (Glories of Mexico!! Porfirio Díaz and Ramón Corral, Elected by the Unanimous Vote of the People)
Nsala of Wala, with his daughter's hand and foot (1904)Content note
An Answer to Mark Twain (Brussels pamphlet cover, 1907)Content note
The Modern Civilization of Europe: France in Morocco & England in Egypt (Cairo Punch supplement)Content note
Saludo y felicitación al Señor D. Francisco I. Madero al tomar posesión de la presidencia (Salute and Congratulations to Francisco I. Madero on Taking the Presidency)
"Ned med militarismen - Leve socialismen" propaganda stamp (Norway, 1914)
I.W.W. Hat Card
Подошёл колбасник к Лодзи (A Sausage-Maker Came to Łódź)Content note
Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?
Ireland & Poland (recruiting appeal quoting the Rev. William P. Burke)
Have You Any Women-Folk Worth Defending? Remember the Women of Belgium. Join To-Day
On les aura! 2e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. Souscrivez (We'll get them! Second National Defence Loan. Subscribe)
Save Serbia our ally: Serbian Relief Committee of America poster
Die beste Sparkasse: Kriegsanleihe! (The Best Savings Bank: War Loan!)
Die Fahnen flattern hoch im Wind! (The Flags Flutter High in the Wind!)
Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man, I'd Join the Navy
I Want You for U.S. Army
Putting the mortgage on the cradle
Заём свободы. Война до победы (Liberty Loan. War until Victory)
The Black Stork (cinema advertisement)Content note
The Greatest Mother in the World: Red Cross Christmas Roll Call
Suomen Mies ja Nainen! Äänestä Kansallista Kokoomuspuoluetta! (political postcard of the National Coalition Party)
Pershing Says: The S.O.S. Shares the Success With Us
Remember Belgium. Buy Bonds. Fourth Liberty LoanContent note
That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth: Buy Liberty Bonds
Now for a round-up
Капитал (Capital)
Republic of Korea, Certificate of Indebtedness ($10 bond, no. 462), signed by Syngman Rhee
"Kärntner Volksabstimmung, 10. Oktober 1920" postcard
Wolność Bolszewicka (Bolshevik Freedom): Polish Army propaganda poster
Ты записался добровольцем? (Have You Volunteered?)
The Bombay Chronicle reports a foreign-cloth bonfire (1921)
Възвание към селския народ в Варненския окръг (Appeal to the peasant people of the Varna district)
東江陳軍餉械 英國 (Chen's East River Army: Pay and Arms, Britain), Canton newspaper cartoon
Centenaire de l'Algérie, 1830-1930 (poster by Léon Cauvy)
蛇鼠同巢之擴大会議 (Snakes and Rats in One Nest: The Enlarged Conference), cartoon from Xinsheng magazine no. 12
Palazzo Braschi dressed for the 1934 plebiscite: rows of "SI" around the Duce
"Credere Obbedire Combattere": a school group photograph, Mirandola, 1938
Human Sterilization TodayContent note
Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India (printed sheet, Allahabad, 1 November 1858)
Illustration of the Issuing of the State Constitution in the State Chamber of the New Imperial Palace (憲法發布式之圖)
豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel HeterodoxyContent note
劉永福懸賞抓拿日本奸細告示 (Liu Yongfu's notice offering rewards for capturing Japanese spies), Taiwan
Cuba's Heroes and Their Flag: Souvenir Lithograph of the Grand Cuban-American Fair
"School Begins" (Puck, 1899)Content note
時局圖 (The Situation in the Far East / Map of the Present Situation), newer version with English labels
Many Happy Returns - of the Gold to the Rightful Owners (Tom Browne, The Sketch)
"Kill Every One Over Ten" (New York Evening Journal, 1902)Content note
1904 Meiji Japan Navy: Seventy-Seven Brave Soldiers Decide to Die
"In the Rubber Coils" (Punch, 1906)Content note
The Cairo Punch: The English Councillors (Sir Eldon Gorst and the ministers)
詔書 (Imperial Rescript on the Annexation of Korea), Korean translation, Official Gazette of the Government-General of Korea no. 1, p. 17Content note
The Menace front page, 12 April 1913 (Aurora, Missouri)Content note
Ejército Constitucionalista de México: billete de cinco pesos (Constitutionalist Army of Mexico: Five-Peso Note)
Сдал австриец русским Львов (The Austrian Surrendered Lvov to the Russians)
Berliner Tageblatt, evening edition, 22 September 1914: "Der Brand der Kathedrale von Reims"
Cold-Blooded Murder! Remember Germany's Crowning Infamy
EnlistContent note
Karl Goetz "Lusitania" medal (Germany, 1915)Content note
Remember Belgium — Enlist To-Day
"I did not raise my girl to be a voter"
Gold gab ich zur Wehr, Eisen nahm ich zur Ehr (I Gave Gold for Defence, I Took Iron for Honour)
Военный 5½% заём (Russian War Loan postcard, 1916)
Sind wir die Barbaren? (Are We the Barbarians?)
Destroy This Mad Brute — EnlistContent note
שפייז וועט געווינען דיא קריעג! (Food Will Win the War!), Yiddish edition
He Can't Put It Out
Wer Kriegsanleihe zeichnet, macht mir die schönste Geburtstagsgabe! (Whoever Subscribes to the War Loan Gives Me the Finest Birthday Present!)![Virginia Arnold [holding Kaiser Wilson banner]](collection/images/kaiser-wilson-banner-1917-640.jpg)
Virginia Arnold [holding Kaiser Wilson banner]
Das ist der Weg zum Frieden, die Feinde wollen es so! Darum zeichne Kriegsanleihe! (That Is the Way to Peace, the Enemies Want It So! Therefore Subscribe to the War Loan!)
Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe! Živnostenská Banka Filiale in Wien (Subscribe to the 7th War Loan! Živnostenská Banka, Vienna Branch)
Beat Back the Hun with Liberty BondsContent note
Halt the Hun! Buy U.S. Government Bonds, Third Liberty LoanContent note
"Propheten einer neuen Welt" (Nebelspalter cartoon, 1918)
Pershing's Crusaders
Ultimo acto d'um valente (Last Act of a 'Brave Man'): Sidónio Pais and Afonso CostaContent note
Tell That to the Marines!Content note
Was England will! (What England Wants!)
Americans All! Victory Liberty Loan
Students burning Japanese goods, Tsinghua School
Mayakovsky, Советская азбука (Soviet Alphabet), letter Б (Moscow, 1919)
Spartakus bei der Arbeit (Spartacus at Work)Content note
America When Feminized
Do broni! Wszyscy na front! (To Arms! Everyone to the Front!)
"Zmaga je naša!" Carinthian plebiscite leaflet (1920)
Bielschowitz 1-Mark plebiscite note: "Mörderbuben und Banditen" (Upper Silesia, 1921)
Kreuzburg O.S. 25-pfennig note: "97% für Deutschland!" (Upper Silesia, 1921)
"It's none of the public's business"
"Jungles Today, Gold Mines Tomorrow" (Empire Marketing Board, 1926)Content note
"The Good Shopper" (Empire Marketing Board)
Ein Volk, ein Führer, ein Ja (One People, One Leader, One Yes)
Oro alla Patria: handing in gold wedding rings in Milan, 1935
Eesti rahwas, hoia kokku! (Estonian people, hold together!): Rahvarinne election leaflet
Varokaa! Vakoilija! (Beware! Spy!): Finnish Winter War poster
Keep Calm and Carry On
Careless Talk Costs Lives: "...strictly between these four walls!"
'Zeitaku wa teki da!' (Luxury Is the Enemy!) street sign, Tokyo
Muscovites at TASS Window No. 5, 'What Hitler Wants' (Chego Gitler khochet)Content note
'A Grã-Bretanha, Defensora da Liberdade' (British poster in Portuguese)
Don't Let That Shadow Touch Them: Buy War Bonds
Loose Lips Might Sink Ships
This Man Is Your Friend: Russian. He Fights for Freedom
All the Ear-Marks of a Sneaky Jap!Content note
China Fights On
'Join us in a victory job' (Australian Department of National Service)
The More Women at Work the Sooner We Win!
This Is the EnemyContent note
'Wer hatte recht?' ('Who was right?') (Allied leaflet to Germany)
Totaler Krieg – kürzester Krieg (Total War – Shortest War): the Sportpalast rally of 18 February 1943
Still from "Japanse propaganda tentoonstelling", Japanese military propaganda film shot in Java (c. 1944)
Attention American Soldiers! I Cease Resistance (surrender pass, leaflet 17-J-1)
Bangsa "Merdeka", Negara "Merdeka": Inilah Tudjuan Kita! (Free Nation, Free State: This Is Our Goal!)
Give Freedom to the Captive Nations! Fight Communism!
Freedom-Gram: Help Truth Fight Communism
建設馬來亞 / 破壞馬來亞 (Building Malaya / Destroying Malaya)
Invest a "Truth Dollar" in Radio Free Europe
Sovetskie soldaty! Russian-language appeal to Soviet troops, Budapest 1956
FRIEDENSVERTRAG: East Berlin street board on a German peace treatyContent note
President Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin 'Midnight Address'
Melati bedonbal-e shah-e khod (A Nation Following Its Shah): Pahlavi government poster
Việt-Cộng hãy coi chừng!! (Viet Cong Beware!)
Pražané! (Praguers!): leaflet from the first days of the 1968 occupation
Barre Cult of Personality Mural
We asked four leading crooks for their opinion on gun control
Ya abna' al-jaysh al-'iraqi (O Sons of the Iraqi Army): Iranian Army leaflet
Nancy Reagan holds up a 'Just Say No' sign for press photographers
Mobile Production Facilities for Biological Agents (UN Security Council slide)
'What would you do?' Israel Defense Forces infographic
The Real Cost — "Your Skin"Content note
'Chávez vive' banners on the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, Caracas
'Miners for Trump' rally poster (Internet Research Agency)
"We are woke to your PLANdemic" placard, Columbus, Ohio
Address announcing a 'special military operation'
'Gennady Rakitin,' an invented pro-war poet
AI-generated image from the Springfield pet-eating claimContent noteWhy we built this
Read morePropaganda works best when nobody notices it. A 1915 recruiting poster and this week's wave of coordinated accounts lean on the same few moves: a fear, a flag, a crowd that seems to agree, an enemy with a face. Once you can name those moves, they lose much of their grip.
The techniques
Technique map All 28 techniquesEvery object and brief here is tagged with the techniques it uses. A technique is a technique regardless of who uses it.
Classical
Institute for Propaganda Analysis (1937) seven devices and close descendants. Work on emotion, identity, and selective evidence.
Rhetorical
Argument-form tricks that survive even when the speaker is named.
Operational
Campaign architecture: how a message is staged, sourced, or made to look like consensus.
Computational
Volume, automation, synthetic production, or poisoning of ranking and retrieval systems.
Latest from the watch
Case studies All 181 briefsThe live sensor, not the archive.
- Sep 29, 2026ImpersonatedANO Dialog, as named in Meta's H2 2026 CIB report, rented local media brands and AI talking-heads to boost Strong Armenia while a 28 September NGO file restated the wider Russian stack.
- Sep 29, 2026IdentifiedChina's Foreign Ministry used a one-sided White House readout to treat opposing Taiwan independence as the correct U.S. position after talks Trump's fact sheet did not mention.
- Sep 29, 2026IdentifiedUK Prime Minister Andy Burnham used UNGA catastrophe language to sell a National Centre for Information Defence as the remedy for a poisonous tide.
- Sep 29, 2026IdentifiedJustice Department reminder named public demonstrations among activities a foreign power's agent must register, drawing warnings that protest could be read as unregistered propaganda.
- Sep 29, 2026IdentifiedQatar's International Media Office framed Israeli aid-to-Hamas reports as a far-right smear so UN-cleared transfers would read as civilian-only.
Campaigns
All dossiers- Brazil's WhatsApp and platform messaging networks, 2018 to 2022, and the state's responseUnidentified
- SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica: behavioural targeting, the Kogan data harvest and the regulatory recordUnidentified
- CENTCOM / Pentagon “gc_” newsroom networkUnidentified
- PRC-linked AI content farms targeting TaiwanUnidentified
- U.S. Committee on Public Information (Creel Committee), 1917-1919Identified
- Gulf state-linked Twitter networks and the 2017 Gulf rift information war (2014-2020)Impersonated
- Hanover Institute for Public Policy (LaPam / Piro / Havas)Unidentified
- Indian Chronicles: revived NGOs, look-alike outlets and a newswire relay (2005 to 2023)Unidentified
- Information Research Department (UK Foreign Office), 1948-1977Unidentified
- Internet Research Agency (Russian operation aimed at US audiences, 2014 to 2018)Impersonated
- Iran-origin Meta CIB — fake US activist personas (H2 2026)Impersonated
- The Islamic State media apparatus and the effort to dismantle it (2013-2019)Identified
- Operation Matryoshka / Overload — German state elections 2026Impersonated
- Pentagon retired military analyst outreach (2002-2008)Unidentified
- Paid and volunteer online influence networks in Philippine politics, 2016 to 2022Unidentified
- Russia Social Design Agency — Projects 2026Unidentified
- South Africa's Department of Information secret projects, 1972-1979 ("Muldergate")Unidentified
- US Cigarette Makers' Joint Doubt Programme (1953 to 2006)Unidentified
What counts as propaganda here
Communication designed to shape belief or behavior by bypassing or overwhelming reasoned evaluation, through emotion, identity, repetition, omission, authority, or volume, rather than by making a claim that can survive open scrutiny.