Abstract
ABSTRACT Russian media outlets controlled by the Russian state have been known to disseminate dis/misinformation or fake news, especially about rivals such as Western countries. We investigate if this was the case for an incident in which the then-President of the United States Donald Trump declared his administration’s interest in purchasing Greenland. Using Factiva, we collected and reviewed all English-language articles published on this controversy by Russian news outlet Sputnik in August 2019 and found that dis/misinformation was not at play in this instance. However, we did observe that Sputnik deployed numerous strategies to aggravate tension and confrontation between the United States and Denmark and employed specific frames to take part in informational competition with Western states, including Arctic ones. This study is important in order to identify how strategies other than outright lying contribute to Russia’s foreign policy goals, and in turn to identify how best to counter these strategies.
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