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.
With Election Day just roughly three months out, the 2020 race has seen renewed attention in RT, Sputnik News, PressTV and the Global Times.
In the past decade, Twitter has transformed from simply a social media platform to a key access point for news for millions of people in the U.S. and around the world. State-sponsored media outlets have also used the platform to speak with American audiences. FIE 2020 discusses RT, Sputnik, PressTV and Global Times Twitter activity surrounding U.S. election integrity.
FIE 2020 examines Russian state-sponsored media’s narratives about mail-in voting in the 2020 election.
While China’s state-sponsored media outlet the Global Times appears to have little interest in supporting one candidate versus another in the 2020 election, its coverage instead seeks to criticize American democracy as a whole.
FIE outlines coverage from RT and Sputnik News that questions the integrity of U.S. elections in 2020.