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  "path": "/2026/04/07/propaganda-as-financial-infrastructure-how-islamic-state-and-al-qaeda-media-ecosystems-enable-terrorist-finance/",
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  "textContent": "Propaganda ecosystems function as parallel trust infrastructures, enabling extremist organisations to coordinate financial activity outside formal financial systems. While extremist propaganda is typically studied as a tool for recruitment or ideological dissemination, these ecosystems also perform a critical financial function as generators of the reputational legitimacy and interpersonal trust necessary for decentralised financial networks to operate. Over the past decade, […]",
  "title": "Propaganda as Financial Infrastructure: How Islamic State and al-Qaeda Media Ecosystems Enable Terrorist Finance"
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