this is pretty on the nose, from 58 yrs ago:
Propaganda by its very nature is an enterprise for perverting the significance of events and of insinuating false intentions… The propagandist must insist on the purity of his own intentions and, at the same time, hurl accusations at his enemy. The propagandist will not accuse the enemy of just any misdeed, he will accuse him of the very intention that he himself has and of trying to commit the very crime that he himself is about to commit. Propaganda ceases where simple dialogue begins.– Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1962)