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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.7249/RRA112-21
来源IDRR-A112-21
Bad Actors in News Reporting: Tracking News Manipulation by State Actors
Christian Johnson; William Marcellino
发表日期2021-11-15
出版年2021
页码20
语种英语
结论

During the COVID-19 pandemic, both Russia and China engaged in news manipulation that served their political goals

  • Russian media advanced anti-U.S. conspiracy theories about the virus.
  • Chinese media advanced pro-China news that laundered their reputation in terms of COVID-19 response. Russian media also supported this laundering effort.
  • Russia and China directly threatened global health and well-being by using authoritarian power over the media to oppose public health measures.

An enduring collection capability would enable real-time detection and analysis of state-actor propaganda

  • Existing natural language processing methods can be combined to make sense of news reporting by nation, at global scale.
  • A public system for monitoring global news that detects and describes global news themes by nation is plausible. Such a system might help guard against Truth Decay efforts from malicious state actors.
摘要

COVID-19 offered authoritarian regimes, such as China and Russia, an opportunity to manipulate news media to serve state ends. Researchers conducted a scalable proof-of-concept study for detecting state-level news manipulation. Using a scalable infrastructure for harvesting global news media, and using machine-learning and data analysis workflows, the research team found that both Russia and China appear to have employed information manipulation during the COVID-19 pandemic in service to their respective global agendas. This report, the second in a series, describes these efforts, as well as the analytic workflows employed for detecting and documenting state-actor malign and subversive information efforts. This work is a potential blueprint for a detective capability against state-level information manipulation at the global scale, using existing, off-the-shelf technologies and methods. This report is part of RAND's Countering Truth Decay Initiative, which considers the diminishing role of facts and analysis in political and civil discourse and the policymaking process.

目录 Bad Actors in News Reporting: Tracking News Manipulation by State Actors | RAND
主题Big Data ; China ; Information Operations ; The Internet ; Media Influences on Health ; Russia ; United States
URLhttps://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA112-21.html
来源智库RAND Corporation (United States)
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