• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    It was one of George Orwell’s favorite hobbies, after all.

    In 1949, shortly before he died, English author George Orwell prepared a list of notable writers and other people he considered to be unsuitable as possible writers for the anti-communist propaganda activities of the Information Research Department, a secret propaganda organisation of the British state under the Foreign Office. A copy of the list was published in The Guardian in 2003 and the original was released by the Foreign Office soon after.