Shell Companies
Obfuscation
Shell companies enable state actors to obscure beneficial ownership and conduct covert influence operations—including funding disinformation, media manipulation, and political interference—while maintaining plausible deniability and evading attribution.
Shell companies enable state actors to obscure beneficial ownership and conduct covert influence operations—including funding disinformation, media manipulation, and political interference—while maintaining plausible deniability and evading attribution.
FIMI Taxonomy by Information Epidemiology Lab.
Citation
BibTeX citation:
@article{li2026,
author = {Li, E. Rosalie},
title = {Shell {Companies}},
date = {2026-02-17},
url = {https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/shell-companies.html},
langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Li, E. Rosalie. 2026. “Shell Companies,” February. https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/shell-companies.html.