State-Media Partnerships
Obfuscation
State actors covertly partner with ostensibly independent media outlets to embed regime-aligned narratives within trusted journalistic brands, obscuring propaganda origins while exploiting existing audience skepticism of mainstream institutions.
State actors covertly partner with ostensibly independent media outlets to embed regime-aligned narratives within trusted journalistic brands, obscuring propaganda origins while exploiting existing audience skepticism of mainstream institutions.
FIMI Taxonomy by Information Epidemiology Lab.
Citation
BibTeX citation:
@article{li2026,
author = {Li, E. Rosalie},
title = {State-Media {Partnerships}},
date = {2026-02-17},
url = {https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/state-media-partnerships.html},
langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Li, E. Rosalie. 2026. “State-Media Partnerships,” February.
https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/state-media-partnerships.html.