A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Kremlin Media Coverage of the RNC and DNC
A nation must think before it acts.
Amid the 2020 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Russian state-sponsored news outlets RT and Sputnik News published a number of stories and opinion pieces covering both conventions. RT portrayed the DNC and former Vice President Biden especially negatively, while Sputnik News coverage was more mixed.
Foreign state-sponsored media outlets published a number of stories mentioning Senator Kamala Harris in light of former Vice President Joe Biden’s announcement on August 11 that the senator would be his running mate in the 2020 election, many of them painting Harris negatively.
FIE 2020’s third update on Russia’s media mentions of the 2020 candidates and the 2020 election.
FIE 2020 examines PressTV’s media mentions of the 2020 candidates in February and March 2020.
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’s second update on Russia’s media mentions of the 2020 candidates.
The FIE 2020 Project examines Iranian state-sponsored media mentions of the 2020 presidential candidates and the narratives that surround coverage of the U.S. election published on Iran’s PressTV.
FIE 2020 discusses Sputnik News’s approaches to impeachment coverage.
To date, the team has analyzed 2,572 stories and 4,591 mentions published by RT and Sputnik. Here are some of the highlights since our previous analyses of Russian state-sponsored media on November 10 and November 25.
Russia’s strategic calculus for hacking Election 2020 involves several factors. FPRI’s Foreign Influence Election 2020 Project discusses the considerations Russia will face in deciding whether to hack or not to hack during the 2020 election cycle.