Elevate Extremists

Sabotage
State actors amplify extremist movements through financial support, media funding, and coordinated messaging to deepen social divisions and destabilize adversary societies, exploiting existing grievances while maintaining plausible deniability.
Author
Affiliation

E. Rosalie Li

Information Epidemiology Lab

Published

February 17, 2026

Sabotage

State actors amplify extremist movements through financial support, media funding, and coordinated messaging to deepen social divisions and destabilize adversary societies, exploiting existing grievances while maintaining plausible deniability.

FIMI Taxonomy by Information Epidemiology Lab.

Citation

BibTeX citation:
@article{li2026,
  author = {Li, E. Rosalie},
  title = {Elevate {Extremists}},
  date = {2026-02-17},
  url = {https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/elevate-extremists.html},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Li, E. Rosalie. 2026. “Elevate Extremists,” February. https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/elevate-extremists.html.