Steve Bannon

Stephen K. Bannon is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News and former White House chief strategist (2017). After leaving the White House, he built the War Room podcast and an international network promoting nationalist populism. Bannon described his media strategy as "flood the zone with shit" — overwhelming the public with misinformation so that discerning truth becomes exhausting. He was convicted of contempt of Congress in 2022 for defying a January 6th Committee subpoena and has repeatedly promoted false claims about the 2020 election. For students, Bannon is a case study in how information overload itself can be a propaganda technique — not by convincing people of one lie, but by making them give up on finding the truth at all.