propaganda laundering
noun1
- The act of legitimizing misinformation by presenting it in the same manner as widely trusted news sources, in order to increase its exposure and lend it credibility with the target audience; in some cases, the process may be repeated several times, through increasingly trusted sources.
- These developments involving LN [Literární noviny] and [Marek] Hrubec were not the first episodes of propaganda laundering in the Czech Republic. — 2021