perception management

Actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all levels to influence official estimates, ultimately resulting in foreign behaviors and official actions favorable to the originator's objectives. In various ways, perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover and deception, and psychological operations. See also psychological operations.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Anchorperson, Fahad Hussain, while sharing his thoughts said project management is equally important in the field of media which has to be applied in the form of content and perception management, be it news bulletins or programmes.

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I don't know for what successes Fidan will be remembered in the future, despite the successful perception management strategies, but I am sure that Fidan will be frequently remembered for his role in making Turkey a partner of radical terrorist organizations.

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It is during this period that the facts about Fidan and his failures were distorted through perception management techniques and he was idealized as a hero.

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He claimed that the news story only sought to cooperate with the government in its "perception management" system.

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"As far as I can see, this perception management operation is having the opposite effect.

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Hopefully, his team will take this seriously and take into account the information from the field in the 'various initiatives' taken for 'perception management', and in their in plans to deal with 'anti-vaccine propaganda'.

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To counter the anti-polio propaganda and other programmatic challenges, provincial EOC initiated revamped communication and perception management strategy that included advocacy sessions with different stakeholders at provincial and district levels.