November 2, 2020 Moscow’s War on Silicon Valley: Information Integrity and the 2020 Election Four years ago, Russian state-sponsored disinformation operations weaponized “Big Tech” platforms as tools to attempt to manipulate the outcome... Read more »
October 28, 2020 Russia, Iran and China’s Candidate Preferences Before Election Day 2020 Preferences for one candidate or the other in 2020 have been critical to understanding any foreign interference efforts in... Read more »
October 22, 2020 RT and Sputnik’s Coverage of U.S. Protests Amplifies Chaos, Political Instability Coverage of the protests across the U.S. in RT and Sputnik indicate an attempt by Kremlin media to amplify... Read more »
September 25, 2020 Sputnik News’s “Viral” Vertical: How Viral Is It? Sputnik News’s “Viral” vertical focuses on social media reaction and discussion. Drawing eyeballs to eye-catching content, the “Viral” section... Read more »
September 9, 2020 Kremlin Media Coverage of the RNC and DNC Amid the 2020 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Russian state-sponsored news outlets RT and Sputnik News published a number... Read more »
August 31, 2020 As November Nears, Election Coverage Increases in Foreign State-Sponsored Outlets With Election Day just roughly three months out, the 2020 race has seen renewed attention in RT, Sputnik News,... Read more »
August 25, 2020 State-Sponsored Media Twitter Activity on 2020 Election Integrity In the past decade, Twitter has transformed from simply a social media platform to a key access point for... Read more »
August 12, 2020 State-Sponsored News on Democratic VP Pick Senator Kamala Harris Foreign state-sponsored media outlets published a number of stories mentioning Senator Kamala Harris in light of former Vice President... Read more »
July 30, 2020 7 Potential Disinformation Disasters Headed into Election 2020 As election season heats up this summer and into the fall, the peddlers of disinformation—foreign and domestic—have never had... Read more »
July 22, 2020 Kremlin Media’s Attacks on Big Tech’s Efforts to Combat Misinformation Russian state-sponsored media outlets RT and Sputnik News have ramped up their criticisms of American tech and social media... Read more »