Background Noise
Spillover
Persistent low-level repetition of regime-aligned messages across multiple channels creates ambient epistemic pollution that normalizes falsehoods, weakens skepticism, and degrades public trust in information environments long after individual influence operations end.
Persistent low-level repetition of regime-aligned messages across multiple channels creates ambient epistemic pollution that normalizes falsehoods, weakens skepticism, and degrades public trust in information environments long after individual influence operations end.
FIMI Taxonomy by Information Epidemiology Lab.
Citation
BibTeX citation:
@article{li2026,
author = {Li, E. Rosalie},
title = {Background {Noise}},
date = {2026-02-17},
url = {https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/background-noise.html},
langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Li, E. Rosalie. 2026. “Background Noise,” February. https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/background-noise.html.