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Restrictions potentially allow governments to provide citizens with biased information, which may then increase trust in, and satisfaction with, ruling elites. Yet, these restrictions may also be  perceived as a signal that the latter are not trustworthy. Employing data from the European Social Survey to compare respondents with different levels of media consumption, we show that unfree media are partially effective in manipulating perceptions. 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