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Foreign Influence in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: More Actors, But Less Effective

Foreign Influence in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: More Actors, But Less Effective

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Abstract

The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Foreign Influence Election 2020 (FIE 2020) project, born out of the lessons from the 2016 U.S. presidential election, sought to understand the general thrust of any overt interference efforts by authoritarian regimes aimed at the 2020 presidential election. The project cataloged and analyzed more than 10,500 stories from Russia Today (RT), and Sputnik News (Russia), PressTV (Iran) and The Global Times (China) published from January 1, 2019 to December 11, 2020. These outlets’ overt media coverage indicated the preferred candidates and narratives these regimes sought to promote throughout the lead-up to the 2020 election, on Election Day, and in the post-election period.

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