What is the history of propaganda?

According to The Merriam Webster Learner’s Dictionary, propaganda is defined as:

“...ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc."

The Catholic church began using the term in the mid-1600's to describe spreading or “propagating” the faith, usually to non-Catholic countries. Gradually the word began coming up in politics to describe dishonest or selfish communication.
The American Revolution produced well-known examples of propaganda such as Common Sense by Thomas Paine and Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry. Ben Franklin printed newspapers and posters to win support from the colonists.
It wasn’t until the First World War that propaganda was used on a massive scale. This was the first war in which nations needed to convince entire populations that the war was worth fighting. Posters from Great Britain played on peoples’ patriotism and their belief in the “justness” of the British cause. The Germans were depicted as barbaric and evil to convince Britons that the enemy was something less than human.
By WWII, radio and motion pictures gave the Allied and Axis powers new tools for harnessing patriotism and hatred. Notable examples are the Nazi film Triumph of the Will and the American documentary series Why we Fight. Both sides coerced newspapers and radio broadcasters to run pro-war stories and to censor negative ones.
Propaganda, usually in the political sphere, proliferated as new forms of media emerged. TV, the Internet, and social media have each added their own spin on the harnessing of public opinion. Fake news, conspiracy theory, and online tribalism prove that dishonest or self-serving communication shows no sign of going away.
https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/themes/propaganda

https://www.canva.com/learn/examples-of-propaganda/