November 23, 2020 How Russia Covered Election 2020’s “October Surprise” Russian media outlets favored sensationalized reporting on the alleged scandals surrounding Hunter Biden throughout 2020 and the responses by... Read more »
November 15, 2020 Russia’s Use of Domestic Disinformation Isn’t Stopping Post-Election Day Election Day has come and gone, but Americans still face a barrage of mis- and disinformation aimed at discrediting... Read more »
November 2, 2020 Foreign State-Sponsored Narratives on Mail-in Voting and Social Media Reach With Election Day tomorrow, coverage of mail-in voting from state-backed outlets has only increased, aiming to denigrate trust in... Read more »
November 2, 2020 Foreign Influence and the 2020 Election: What We’ve Seen and What’s to Come The lead-up to Election Day in 2020 has had many twists and turns. Throughout the past year, however, we’ve... Read more »
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 »
October 2, 2020 Russian State Media: U.S. Versus Russia in COVID-19 Vaccine Race Ultimately, the information war between the Kremlin in America will be determined by which country's information consumers trust more—the... Read more »
September 30, 2020 Kremlin Outlets on the First Presidential Debate: Highlighting Chaos and Denigrating Biden The first U.S. 2020 presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden was filled with... 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 »