Description
Through the prism of the first comprehensive account of RT, the Kremlin''s primary tool of foreign propaganda, Russia, Disinformation and the Liberal Order sheds new light on the provenance and nature of disinformation''s threat to democracy. Interrogating the communications strategies pursued by authoritarian states and grassroots populist movements, the book reveals the interlinked nature of today''s global media-politics pathologies.
Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Rhys Crilley, and Marie Gillespie provide a systematic investigation into RT''s history, institutional culture, and journalistic ethos; its activities across multiple languages and media platforms; its audience-targeting strategies and audiences'' engagements with it; and its response to the war in Ukraine and associated bans on the network. The authors'' analysis challenges commonplace notions of disinformation as something that Russia brings to the West, where
