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That's manipulation.
Using a thermostat and central heating/cooling system as an example. So you have this thermostat that has its controls locked by a password.
Manipulation is placing a hot/cold object to the temperature sensor in order to trick it into commanding an increase/decrease in temperature.
"Mind Control" would be hacking straight into the thermostat's software/firmware and directly using its ability to change the temperature.
How I would differentiate:
People still have agency when faced with propaganda and indoctrination. Actual mind control is more of a physiological effect that removes agency.
To answer your question: yes I think it is possible. Consider what chemical substances can do to the brain.
Let me ask you: What's the difference in result?
In the analogy, not that different. Maybe flawed analogy. But humans aren't a exactly a perfect input/output machine, and humans don't have just one "temperature sensor". The official news isn't the only source of information, your problems in daily life such as:
your low wages, bad healthcare, rising cost of food, inflation, water supply being unclean, crime, police brutality, etc...
Propaganda and indoctrination can't erase every the terrible truths of life, it can help whitewash it, but unless you have the absolute mind control that I was talking about where you literally "hack" the brain, there will still be some dissenters. Statistically, there are always dissenters because not everyone will think alike. But with absolute mind control, compliance would be 100%.
^ohffs^
Your analogy is flawed. Read your own words, then maybe reply. Please.🤦🏼♂️