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Sorry, why do you believe these entities have no intent nor goals? That's a very odd assumption to make.

As always, I highly recommend Manufacturing Consent, which well illustrates how to examine financial interests to determine the above. Propaganda does not require conspiracy nor explicit instructions on what messages to convey; it only requires a class of people produced from the same environment, aiming to reproduce that same environment.




> illustrates how to examine financial interests to determine the above

On this basis we have to exclude all "citizen jounalists" as unreliable click bait at best or just plain manufactured news.




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