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Mainstream just means what people in positions of authority believe to be true. Not a good yardstick, unless bombing the middle east is your thing. They also push russian conspiracy theories that are as baroque as anything that came out of an online discussion board.
And "state sponsored" means nothing when the higher level mainstream voices all went to the same schools, subscribe to the same twitter feeds, live in the same neighbourhoods, and send their kids to the same schools as the officials they are supposedly holding to account.