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      Interactive Propaganda
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      Interactive Propaganda

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      How Fox News and Donald Trump Co-produced False Narratives about the COVID-19 Crisis

      Interactive Propaganda

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      How Fox News and Donald Trump Co-produced False Narratives about the COVID-19 Crisis
      ByYunkang Yang, Lance Bennett
      BookPolitical Communication in the Time of Coronavirus

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 18
      eBook ISBN 9781003170051
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter proposes an interactive propaganda model that accounts for a novel development in the role of media in a struggling American democracy, namely the co-production of systemic disinformation between government and media to influence public opinion and behavior. Using the coronavirus crisis as a case, we found that the interaction between the Trump administration and Fox News that produced persistent disinformation about hydroxychloroquine as a miracle cure for COVID-19 included four elemental processes: (1) both Trump and Fox actively monitoring the information environment to identify propaganda material; (2) Trump and/or Fox cueing the other with the manufactured disinformation; (3) both sides monitoring and amplifying each other; and (4) both addressing criticism and adjusting for areas of conflicting interest. Different from traditional propaganda as top-down communication that typically flows from government to media and other societal echo chambers, interactive propaganda may be a political communication pattern that marks a shift toward an illiberal regime where the state forms partnerships with the media to consolidate its rule.

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