Jason Stanley was invited to a State Department conference on propaganda at the Hoover Institute in 2017.
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Robinson's PodcastSep 23, 2026
None of the sources state that Jason Stanley was invited to a State Department propaganda conference at the Hoover Institute in 2017.
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… Uh, the other thing I wanted to mention about those early propaganda conferences: until I was disinvited, by the time people, by late 2017, 2018, I was already disinvited for those conferences. So, I was, like, invited to a high level State Department conference on propaganda in 2017 at the Hoover Institute. I was at a conference with, like, CIA, you know, in that year. But what I gradually saw is the very people who had mocked me for working on this topic starting to become, you know, leading people in the study of propaganda, and these were not humanists. …
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Context. A May 2017 Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy report states that the commission convened experts at Stanford's Hoover Institution, but the excerpt does not mention Jason Stanley or any invitation to him.[1]
Context. A February 2017 Yale conference summary lists Jason Stanley as a panelist at a Yale 'Weaponizing Information' event, which is a different event from the claimed State Department conference.[2]
Context. Other sources are biographical, publisher, or unrelated pages that do not address a State Department invitation or a Hoover Institute conference.[3][4][5][6]
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6 sources: 3 primary, 3 not rated
- 1OCR of the Document | National Security Archivensarchive.gwu.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Weaponizing Information Conference: Watch Panel Videos ...law.yale.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 3press.princeton.edu › how-propaganda-worksHow Propaganda Works - Princeton University Presspress.princeton.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 4Jason Stanleyjasonstanley.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Jason Stanley, How Propaganda Worksijoc.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Propagandapublications.kse.ua · not rated · cited for: context
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