I think you can roughly split this into two questions: 1) Is the organization receiving funding to focus on analyzing a certain area of policy? Here, you can a

I think you can roughly split this into two questions: 1) Is the organization receiving funding to focus on analyzing a certain area of policy? Here, you can argue that the organization has an agenda that is driven by its backers, but I don't think it's sufficient to call it propaganda, because by that definition, any paid effort to focus on any particular area is propaganda. 2) Is the organization seeking to highlight positive evidence while seeking to squelch negative evidence? That's where it more becomes about propaganda.