psyops
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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"There is no way to engage productively with psyops — you can't have a reasonable conversation with someone who is telling you that you are stupid or morally defective."
From Salon • Aug. 18, 2024
It’s particularly difficult for psyops soldiers, whose work is often less visible than that of the more celebrated Army commandos and not always understood.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024
Not to mention all the memes about psyops, although I guess that counts as a mention.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022
Farrow can be disarmingly wry — “I knew my way around a paternity rumor” — even when writing about another shadowy psyops firm spying on him and other journalists.
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2019
Its expertise was in “psychological operations” – or psyops – changing people’s minds not through persuasion but through “informational dominance”, a set of techniques that includes rumour, disinformation and fake news.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2018
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