thumb|A Henderson Police Department cruiser next to a police promotional tent at the 2020 Nevada Law Enforcement Appreciation Day event Copaganda (a portmanteau of cop and propaganda) is propaganda intended to positively shape public opinion about police or counter criticism of police and anti-police sentiment.
thumb|A Henderson Police Department cruiser next to a police promotional tent at the 2020 Nevada Law Enforcement Appreciation Day event Copaganda (a portmanteau of cop and propaganda) is propaganda intended to positively shape public opinion about police or counter criticism of police and anti-police sentiment.
The term is used to criticize news media creating one-sided depictions of police, uncritically repeating police narratives, or minimizing police misconduct. It has also been applied to human interest stories and viral videos of police performing wholesome activities in their communities.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).