Talking to RT Audiences
Abstrak
This chapter presents qualitative interviews with RT followers in the United Kingdom, considering why they choose to consume RT’s content and how they engage with it. It demonstrates their failure to bear out common perceptions of their uniform vulnerability to information manipulation. For some, RT’s overt biases deconstruct the liberal illusion of balance and impartiality. Others endorse principles like balance but draw on their experiences of RT to relocate them at radically different, extreme points in the political spectrum. And still others hostile to RT’s propagandistic output find intellectual gratification in their own capacity for meta-ideological analysis. Collectively, these followers pose challenges to how we think about disinformation’s relationship with populism and liberal democracy.
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Stephen Hutchings
Vera Tolz
Precious Chatterje-Doody
Rhys Crilley
Marie Gillespie
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- 2024
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- 10.7591/cornell/9781501777639.003.0008
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