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Oates and Ramsay deliver a damning, evidence-based diagnosis of both the virus of Russian propaganda, and the catastrophically weakened immune system that allowed it to infect America's media and politics - an invaluable guide for those who want to solve the problem, rather than wallow in it. * Samuel Greene, Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London * Oates and Ramsay show, in meticulous detail, how Russian intelligence services and hackers have exploited the weaknesses of U.S. media outlets and social network sites to spread Kremlin propaganda and disinformation, often abetted by the demagoguery and malevolence of certain U.S. politicians. Despite the pernicious impact of Russia's interference on U.S. and West European elections over the past decade, effective measures to prevent such interference remain elusive. This book will help journalists, government officials, and concerned citizens understand the alarming scale of the problem and the steps that need to be taken to safeguard American democracy against Kremlin intrusions. * Mark Kramer, Director of the Cold War Studies Project at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University *

Oates and Ramsay deliver a damning, evidence-based diagnosis of both the virus of Russian propaganda, and the catastrophically weakened immune system that allowed it to infect America's media and politics - an invaluable guide for those who want to solve the problem, rather than wallow in it. * Samuel Greene, Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London * Oates and Ramsay show, in meticulous detail, how Russian intelligence services and hackers have exploited the weaknesses of U.S. media outlets and social network sites to spread Kremlin propaganda and disinformation, often abetted by the demagoguery and malevolence of certain U.S. politicians. Despite the pernicious impact of Russia's interference on U.S. and West European elections over the past decade, effective measures to prevent such interference remain elusive. This book will help journalists, government officials, and concerned citizens understand the alarming scale of the problem and the steps that need to be taken to safeguard American democracy against Kremlin intrusions. * Mark Kramer, Director of the Cold War Studies Project at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University * Overall, Seeing Red's value is in describing several important ways in which U.S. democracy is vulnerable to unverified partisan messaging. * Anton Shirikov, The Russian Review * In this excellently researched and written book, the authors offer timely insight into how Russian ""strategic narratives"" infiltrate and spread in an American information sphere increasingly dominated and divided by walled gardens of politically homogeneous content. More specifically, they trace how pro-Putin propaganda about the US as a failed democracy and NATO-controlled neo-Nazis in Ukraine intersected with Trump's conspiracies regarding election rigging; a biased, liberal, ""fake"" media; and a reticence toward US military intervention on foreign soil to create a volatile, propaganda-driven echo chamber that continues to threaten American democratic institutions-most important among them a free and independent press. * M. S. Gorham, CHOICE *

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Sarah Oates is Associate Dean for Research and Professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. As a political scientist, her work focuses on how the media can support or subvert democracy in places as diverse as Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Oates has published many books, articles, chapters, and papers on various topics, including how the internet can challenge dictatorship, how election coverage varies in different countries, and how national media systems cover terrorism in distinctive ways. A former journalist, she has lived and taught in the United States, Scotland, and Russia. Gordon Neil Ramsay is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. His work has covered political communication and disinformation, as well as media regulation and the effects of the decline of local journalism in democratic societies. He has worked in U.K. think tanks producing research on media legislation and regulation plurality, and co-founded the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King's College London. His recent publications have covered the media's role in elections, the effects of market concentration and economic pressures on local news performance, and the increasing vulnerability of news media to targeted disinformation.

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