They're saying it to make their base feel like they have read it.
I.e. they're being "informed" by folks who claim it is important to have read this report, thus feel as though they have an informed and read opinion on the subject.
Similar to how a bunch of people feel like they have read the Bible when in reality they have just been lectured on cherry picked passages by preachers
Sometimes the propagandists are fucking geniuses, this is the sort of thing that's going to be a montage of clips in Century of the Self 2 or something.
They're saying it to make their base feel like they have read it.
I.e. they're being "informed" by folks who claim it is important to have read this report, thus feel as though they have an informed and read opinion on the subject.
Similar to how a bunch of people feel like they have read the Bible when in reality they have just been lectured on cherry picked passages by preachers
Sometimes the propagandists are fucking geniuses, this is the sort of thing that's going to be a montage of clips in Century of the Self 2 or something.
The catholic church invented it a millennia ago, back when it was the state, but yeah it's impressive how well it works on the psyche