{"id":45426,"date":"2023-01-20T23:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/state-media-use-conspiracy-theories-to-justify-government-policies-research\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"state-media-use-conspiracy-theories-to-justify-government-policies-research","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45426\/","title":{"rendered":"State media use conspiracy theories to justify government policies \u2013 research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>January 20, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> State media use conspiracy theories to legitimize government decisions that \u201cobviously limit human rights,\u201d Belarusian media analysts said in a research paper. <\/p>\n<p> Conspiracies are a means of disinformation, said doctor of philology Iryna Sidorskaja, head of research: \u201cIt takes away our agency, telling us: \u2018Everything is not what it seems. You are just cogs and can\u2019t do anything.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p> The research focused on articles published on the <span>SB. Belarus Segodnya<\/span>, <span>Belarus 1<\/span>, <span>ONT<\/span> and <span>STV <\/span>websites from January 1 to December 31, 2021.<\/p>\n<p> Sidorskaja said their basic conspiracy theory was that Belarus was \u201csurrounded by enemies\u201d who \u201cdeclared a \u2018hybrid war,\u2019 \u2018economic genocide\u2019 and \u2018real terror\u2019 against it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cTherefore, \u2018true patriots\u2019 must rally even more around the leader,\u201d she summed up the message.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that journalists themselves are not the only source of conspiracy ideas, as they often quote top officials voicing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20, BPN. State media use conspiracy theories to legitimize government decisions that \u201cobviously limit human rights,\u201d Belarusian media analysts said in a research paper. Conspiracies are a means of disinformation, said doctor of philology Iryna Sidorskaja, head of research: \u201cIt takes away our agency, telling us: \u2018Everything is not what it seems. You are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45426","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>State media use conspiracy theories to justify government policies \u2013 research | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 20, BPN. 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