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Usage[edit]

I've changed this from "Use by Eurosceptics" to "Usage" as both sides employed scaremongering tactics. Let's not get into an edit war over this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mongoletsi (talk • contribs) 12:40, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong. A hightech company - world experts in election-propaganda, Cambridge Analytica - was engaged by Brexiteers to create fear and confusion in voters minds. The Remainers did not do this.

Yeah no, they had the BBC and libdems do it instead. Also loving the conflation of actual issues with brexit with the fearmongering the term "project fear" is supposed to refer to, excellent way to muddy the waters — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.23.98.134 (talk) 04:26, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Project fear is more than a phrase, it was the entire propaganda strategy used by the leave campaign to engage in fear mongering of immigrants and simultaneously accuse the remain campaign of fear mongering. 83.100.188.53 (talk) 09:08, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-farages-eu-has-failed-us-all-poster-slammed-as-disgusting-by-nicola-sturgeon_uk_576288c0e4b08b9e3abdc483

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44966969

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3fb3aa614ebe597af8a5ccd60d5c2574

Propaganda Tool[edit]

'Propaganda Tool' with terms like this, this is not a very balanced article

COVID-19[edit]

This term has been used in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic by those who oppose the restrictions and/or disagree with the UK government's stance on the issue. I'm wondering if it's worth a brief mention here, so long as we can source it properly. Any thoughts? This is Paul (talk) 20:06, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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In 2021, the term was used in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 7 May 2020, the Wall Street Journal noted that "Project Fear is back, alas, and it threatens to ruin our post-coronavirus politics for years", while arguing that the UK government's response to the pandemic was being driven by media keen to hype up the fear factor.^[1] In September 2020, the journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer used the term in a Telegraph piece in which she suggested British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was pursuing a policy that was threatening to do damage to the UK economy.^[2] Also in September 2020, Sir Patrick Valance, the UK's Chief Scientific Officer, was accused of employing "project Fear" after projected figures for the number of cases of the virus were questioned.^[3] During a parliamentary debate, Conservative MPs accused the government of trying to terrify the public using Project Fear.^[4]

References

^ Sternberg, Joseph C. (May 7, 2020). "Opinion | The Coronavirus and Project Fear 3.0". Retrieved Jan 23, 2021 – via www.wsj.com.
^ Hartley-Brewer, Julia (Sep 22, 2020). "The public needs more than Project Fear". Retrieved Jan 23, 2021 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
^ Roach, April (Sep 30, 2020). "Vallance defends daily case projection after 'project fear' accusation". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved Jan 23, 2021.
^ "Coronavirus: Government accused of trying to 'terrify' public over COVID-19". Sky News. Retrieved Jan 23, 2021.

[1] Sternberg, Joseph C. (May 7, 2020). "Opinion | The Coronavirus and Project Fear 3.0". Retrieved Jan 23, 2021 – via www.wsj.com.

[2] Hartley-Brewer, Julia (Sep 22, 2020). "The public needs more than Project Fear". Retrieved Jan 23, 2021 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.

[3] Roach, April (Sep 30, 2020). "Vallance defends daily case projection after 'project fear' accusation". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved Jan 23, 2021.

[4] "Coronavirus: Government accused of trying to 'terrify' public over COVID-19". Sky News. Retrieved Jan 23, 2021.

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