Foment Violence
Sabotage
External actors deliberately incite and amplify violence within target societies through information operations that radicalize individuals and organize confrontations, creating internally-generated chaos that destabilizes democratic institutions while maintaining deniability.
External actors deliberately incite and amplify violence within target societies through information operations that radicalize individuals and organize confrontations, creating internally-generated chaos that destabilizes democratic institutions while maintaining deniability.
FIMI Taxonomy by Information Epidemiology Lab.
Citation
BibTeX citation:
@article{li2026,
author = {Li, E. Rosalie},
title = {Foment {Violence}},
date = {2026-02-17},
url = {https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/foment-violence.html},
langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Li, E. Rosalie. 2026. “Foment Violence,” February. https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/foment-violence.html.