"Anything that Causes Chaos": The Organizational Behavior of Russia Today (RT)
"Anything that Causes Chaos": The Organizational Behavior of Russia Today (RT)
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DOI：
10.1093/joc/jqaa027
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
影响因子：
7.9
通讯作者：
Howard, Philip N.
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作者：
Elswah, Mona;Howard, Philip N.
RT（前身为《今日俄罗斯》）是全球虚假信息政治经济中最重要的组织之一。它是世界上资金最雄厚、人员最齐全、为克里姆林宫服务的制作、传播和营销新闻的正式组织。 RT 是一家被指控多项罪名的机构，但人们对 RT 活动的融资、管理、培训和激励等所有创造性工作却知之甚少。为了更多地了解 RT 政治新闻和信息的制作情况，我们通过对现任和前任员工的深入访谈来调查其组织行为。我们的数据显示，RT是一个机会主义渠道，被用作国家国防政策的工具来干涉其他国家的政治。该频道是在苏联媒体体制的阴影下建立的，其组织行为具有苏联式的控制特征。
RT (formerly, Russia Today) is one of the most important organizations in the global political economy of disinformation. It is the most richly funded, well-staffed, formal organization in the world producing, disseminating, and marketing news in the service of the Kremlin. It is an agency accused of many things, but little is known about all the creative work involved in financing, governing, training, and motivating RT's activities. To understand more about the production of political news and information by RT, we investigate its organizational behavior through in-depth interviews of current and former staff. Our data show that RT is an opportunist channel that is used as an instrument of state defense policy to meddle in the politics of other states. The channel has been established in the shadows of the Soviet media system and its organizational behavior is characterized by Soviet-style controls.