{"id":4575,"date":"2024-01-01T15:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/propaganda-campaign-for-saudi-crown-princes-london-visit-slammed-on-social-media\/"},"modified":"2024-01-01T15:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:12:45","slug":"propaganda-campaign-for-saudi-crown-princes-london-visit-slammed-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/propaganda-campaign-for-saudi-crown-princes-london-visit-slammed-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Propaganda&#8217; campaign for Saudi crown prince&#8217;s London visit slammed on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n        Pictures of what users called &#8216;propaganda trucks&#8217; and adverts in newspapers praising Saudi Arabia\u2019s Crown Prince ahead of his official visit to the UK were widely criticised on Twitter.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-halfpage u-show-for-small-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-180x22-grey-6.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A public relations campaign praising the visit of Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the UK has raised eyebrows among the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pictures of what British social media users called &#8216;propaganda trucks&#8217; were widely circulated on social media along with newspaper adverts coinciding with the start of his official three-day visit on Wednesday. Part of the campaign saw vans driven around London with a picture of the crown prince and #WelcomeSaudiCrownPrince written on them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-sticky-floor c-advertising-sticky-floor sales-advertising-sticky-floor u-hide-for-medium\"><button class=\"c-ad__btn-close\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"this.parentElement.classList.add('u-hide-for-all')\"><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/icons\/icon-cross-10x10-grey-6.svg\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" alt=\"Close advertising\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/button><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, protesters rallied against Salman&#8217;s visit outside the British parliament against the war in Yemen. Saudi Arabia&#8217;s military operation in Yemen is estimated to have killed 10,000 people and the UK has come under criticism for exporting weapons to the kingdom.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Propaganda trucks&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>One&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/03\/07\/-propaganda-campaign-for-saudi-crown-prince-s-london-visit-slammed-on-social-media\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures of what users called &#8216;propaganda trucks&#8217; and adverts in newspapers praising Saudi Arabia\u2019s Crown Prince ahead of his official visit to the UK were widely criticised on Twitter. ADVERTISEMENT A public relations campaign praising the visit of Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the UK has raised eyebrows among the public.\u00a0 Pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-politics-ar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}