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Chinese, Iranian and Russian State-Sponsored News: Which Stories Spread the Most?
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Which Chinese, Iranian and Russian state-sponsored news stories and narratives spread the most across social media? FIE 2020 discusses the most popular stories from each country’s media outlets out of more than 15,500 catalogued state-sponsored articles about the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
FIE 2020 examines how state-sponsored outlets criticize American “myths” in coverage and attempt to denigrate the U.S. via COVID-19 coverage using these cultural myths.
FIE 2020 examines and discusses social media presence of Chinese, Iranian and Russian state-sponsored news outlets.
FIE 2020 discusses narratives about global leadership and global order pushed by Russian, Iranian and Chinese media amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
An examination of Russian, Iranian and Chinese state-sponsored coverage of the U.S.-China trade war, an illustrative example of narrative overlap between these three nations.
FIE 2020 takes a look at how The Global Times’s coverage on the trade war has changed amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
FIE 2020 examines Chinese state media outlet The Global Times and its coverage of the 2020 U.S. presidential election and the 2020 candidates.
FIE 2020 examines the battle for the narrative between the U.S. and China amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
In February and early March, while Iran and Russia pushed out conspiracies about the virus, Chinese state-sponsored media outlets appeared less inclined to do so. Since March 12, however, the Chinese state media has changed its tune on conspiracy theories.
FIE 2020 discusses Chinese state-sponsored media’s coverage of President Trump amid the coronavirus outbreak.