And VOA was only “propaganda” when you consider objective information to be “propaganda”, like dumbfuck Trumpers do.

the thing is that you can deliver heavily skewed pictures with information that is objectively true. consider the following example:

it makes it appear as if AOC is pro-genocide

yet when you actually have more context, you know that AOC is actively anti-genocide, as discussed here. (in the comments)

so, delivering objectively true information can result in heavily skewed images, due to non-proportionality of information, i.e. some details are exaggerated, others are under-reported. and some journals have a tendency to under-report on specific things while over-reporting on others. so it's still possible to lie with objective information, i.e. create images that are not true because they're out of their actual proportion.