Money talks in short. Additionally those agencies are used by NASA to troll the people in that country and steal money of their tax payers.
Except there is no money in faking space, as it would cost far too much to fake.
Also, are they being paid by NASA?
If not, how does NASA control them?
If so, how does NASA make any money (after its already negative amount from what it needs to fake)?
However i have my doubts because there is one (two?) popular release from NASA which shows africa (also one of the carribean?) a lot larger than they're size in other photos - idicating some fisheye lense distorting the edges.
You mean they are photos (or renderings from a compilation) taken from a vastly different distnace.
You can take a photo on Earth and have Africa more than cover the entire visible region.
As you get further away from a sphere, you can see more of it and thus an object on it appears smaller in proportion.
You can do this with a sphere yourself. Go draw a few circles on it (akin to the lines of latitude on Earth) and hold it up to your eye and see how large those circles appear (at least the ones you can see), then move it further away and see how those circles appear to get smaller by proportion.
Even better than using your eye would be to use a camera with a zoom function. As you change the distance, adjust the zoom so the circle visible appears to be roughly the same size.
As a point of reference for some satellites:
1 - Those like the ISS are at 400 km altitude. That is 3% of the diameter. So if you had a 1 m ball, you would need to hold it 3 cm from your eye for an accurate comparison making it quite difficult to focus on it.
2 - Geostationary orbits are at roughly 35 000 km. That is ~2.7 times the diameter, so you would need to hold that 1 m ball at 2.7 m.
3 - The moon is at 400 000 km. That is roughly 30 times, so that 1 m ball needs to be at 30 m.
4 - L1, such as DSCOVR, which houses EPIC - 1.5 million km. That is roughly 100 times the distance, so the 1 m ball needs to be viewed from roughly 100 m.
Also, the preponderance of photos depicting the gulf of mexico/the carribean promoted front and center i find suspect.
Not in the slightest. There are plenty of photos of Earth.
It isn't surprising that one country, which gets lots of publicity has photos which keeps them fairly well aligned.
Also, if they were to put a photo in geostationary orbit, it would be likely to be looking at them.