Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 4 September 2026 · From issue 32

State-sponsored agenda setting: Measuring the impact of narrative laundering

A foreign campaign shaped public conversation topics without needing to change individual minds.

Patrick L. Warren, Darren L. Linvill et al.

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