Claims by the EU diplomatic service that RT is spreading fake news about the coronavirus pandemic are misleading and based on bad methodology, according to a duo of Manchester researchers focused on monitoring the channel.
In their crosshairs was the alarming report by the European External Action Service (EEAS) – specifically, its public relations shop EastStratCom – published last month. Mainstream Western media outlets uncritically parroted EEAS allegations, such as that “Russian pro-Kremlin media” were conducting a “significant disinformation campaign” to stoke “confusion, panic and fear” in the West and “aggravate the coronavirus pandemic crisis.”
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