Interlocking Leadership

Longevity
Interlocking leadership is the deliberate placement of state-aligned individuals across multiple ostensibly independent organizations to create coordinated influence networks that operate through shared personnel while maintaining plausible deniability of coordination.
Author
Affiliation

E. Rosalie Li

Information Epidemiology Lab

Published

February 17, 2026

Longevity

Interlocking leadership is the deliberate placement of state-aligned individuals across multiple ostensibly independent organizations to create coordinated influence networks that operate through shared personnel while maintaining plausible deniability of coordination.

FIMI Taxonomy by Information Epidemiology Lab.

Citation

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