Measuring the scope of pro-Kremlin disinformation on Twitter

Yevgeniy Golovchenko ()
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Yevgeniy Golovchenko: University of Copenhagen

Palgrave Communications, 2020, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Abstract This article examines the scope of pro-Kremlin disinformation about Crimea. I deploy content analysis and a social network approach to analyze tweets related to the region. I find that pro-Kremlin disinformation partially penetrated the Twitter debates about Crimea. However, these disinformation narratives are accompanied by a much larger wave of information that disagrees with the disinformation and are less prevalent in relative terms. The impact of Russian state-controlled news outlets—which are frequent sources of pro-Kremlin disinformation—is concentrated in one, highly popular news outlet, RT. The few, popular Russian news media have to compete with many popular Western media outlets. As a result, the combined impact of Russian state-controlled outlets is relatively low when comparing to its Western alternatives.

Date: 2020
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