- label
- Funding Data Weaponization
- category
- Media
- code
- TC-08
- definition
- Real CSO financial data is distorted, decontextualized, or selectively deployed to manufacture a delegitimizing narrative. Operates through three mechanisms: (1) factual distortion — currency changed, amounts inflated, outdated data presented as current; (2) credibility attack — during live controversy, state or media deflects from substantive CSO findings by targeting funding sources rather than engaging the content; (3) selective framing — accurate facts presented without essential context to construct a misleading impression of foreign control or corruption. Common to all three: the financial data is real but its use is weaponized.
- detection signal
- Media reporting CSO financial data with currency or amount discrepancies from actual records; government response to CSO accountability findings addressing donors rather than content; factually accurate donor lists published stripped of programmatic context; outdated funding data presented as current evidence of foreign control.
- instrument type
- Media
- needs review
- false
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