[Ads-l] "slopaganda"

[Nancy Friedman]

The ADS WOTY, "slop," was "recognized as a productive combining form to
describe anything of little value generated in mass quantities." Two such
relatively recent compounds ares "slopaganda" and "slopagandist":

The Verge, January 28, 2026:
https://www.theverge.com/news/869824/right-wing-influencers-nick-shirley-slopaganda
>>Traditional media and newsrooms are far from perfect, but at least we can
say so; slopagandists, on the other hand, can never be wrong because their
work does not need to be based in fact.<<

"Slopaganda" was first added to Urban Dictionary in February 2024:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slopaganda
>>Slopaganda is quickly produced
<https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=produced>, weak propaganda
<https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=propaganda>. Slopaganda
typically contradicts itself and makes a pathetic effort to hide the fact
that it is just sloppy propaganda
<https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=propaganda>.<<

And written about in April 2025:
https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/april-2025/slopaganda-and-its-potential-to-upend-elections-on-a-knife-edge
https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialEngineering/comments/1ju3u0w/does_this_concept_already_exist_ive_been_calling/

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