Artamonova Uliana
Становление системы контроля над информационным пространством США // Россия и Америка в XXI веке : электронный научный журнал. 2023. № Спецвыпуск 3. DOI 10.18254/S207054760029044-5. URL: https://rusus.jes.su/s207054760029044-5-1/. Дата публикации: 22.12.2023.
Publication Type:


ISSN 2070-5476

DOI 10.18254/S207054760029044-5

After the 2016 election disinformation has been securitized in the U.S. This precedent,which intertwined disinformation with the foreign influence in public opinion, laid afoundation for the emerging system of governmental control over the information spacein the U.S. This article analyzes American official institutes charged with counteringdisinformation and foreign influence as well as the ways in which such activities arereinforced by input from tech companies and leading social media. Author studies howthe limits of acceptable content moderation extended over the years. The first stageincluded public and private efforts to moderate content related to elections and comingfrom the foreign sources. During the second stage the content censorship started to beapplied to topics other than the elections but nevertheless coming from abroad. The thirdstage – the current one – may be called a period of limitless control since the respectiveaction has been taken by the government and social media both towards all kinds ofinformation coming from foreign and domestic sources. Article concludes that the U.S.is entering the new electoral period amidst the existence of unprecedentedly obvious,well-established and effectively functioning system of governmental control over theinternal information space.


Keywords: disinformation | foreign influence | malign influence | censorship | U.S.A. | freedom of speech | social media |



OTHER PUBLICATIONS ON THIS TOPIC

Rovinskaya Tatiana
print print Freedom of speech amid the digital dictatorship of IT corporations

Gadzhiev Kamaludin
Искушение свободой [Текст] / К. С. Гаджиев // Вопросы политологии. – 2018. – Т. 8. – № 10. – С. 725-736.

Gadzhiev Kamaludin
О феномене "политкорректности" в контексте кризиса либерализма [Текст] / К. С. Гаджиев // Власть. – 2019. – № 6. – С. 210-155. DOI: 10.31171/vlast.v27i6.6854.

Yashlavskii Andrey
Интернет между вседозволенностью и контролем [Текст] / А.Э. Яшлавский // ФСБ: за и против. – 2015. – № 1(35). – С. 16 – 19.

Romashkina Natalia, Fominykh T.
Социальные сети: новые возможности или угрозы? [Текст] / Н.П. Ромашкина, Т.И. Фоминых // Информационные войны. – 2017. – № 3 (43). – С. 16-27.

Rustamova Leili
СМИ и Интернет: проблема использования в террористических целях [Текст] / Л. Р. Рустамова // Национальная безопасность / Nota bene. – 2019. – № 6. – С. 81-92. DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2019.6.31561.

Bubnova Natalia
Stand-off Between Donald Trump and the U.S. Media

Sadovaya Elena
Социальные риски в трудовой сфере: прогноз развития ситуации / Е.С. Садовая // Народонаселение. – 2010. – № 2. – С. 72–84.

Gontmakher Evgeniy
Social Inequalities as an Element of the Contract between Authority and Society / Gontmakher Evgeny

Khokhlov Igor
Тень и свет Хавалы. Финансовая система эпохи средневековья в условиях глобализации / Военно-промышленный курьер. № 16 (182) за 25.04.2007

Gimpelson V., Monusova Galina
Trust in the Police: Cross-country Comparisons / Gimpelson Vladimir, Monusova Galina

Chugrov Sergey
Post-Truth: Transformation of Political Reality or Self-Destruction of Liberal Democracy?

Strezhneva Marina
«Trans-Governmental» Networks in the European Union.

Dovbysh Evgeniy
Роль глобальных сетей городов в мировой политике [Текст] / Е.Г. Довбыш // Человек. Сообщество. Управление. – 2014. – № 1. – С. 18 – 31.

Chugrov Sergey , Peregudov Sergey
QUO VADIS? Перспективы становления гражданского общества в России : по мат. конф. /С.В.Чугров, А.Н.Кокарева, С.П. Перегудов [и др.] // Полис. Политические исследования. – 2012. – № 2. – С. 117–140.

Rustamova Leili
Информационное воздействие в эпоху «постправды» и «фэйк-ньюс» [Текст] / Л. Р. Рустамова, Б. А. Барабаш // Вопросы политологии. – 2018. – Т. 8. – № 5 (33). – С. 23-30.

Milovidov Vladimir
Investor Sentiment and Stock Market Dynamics: Ways to Forecast Stock Prices // Studies on Russian Economic Development. 2024. Vol. 35. No. 4. Pp. 518-529.

Gontmakher Evgeniy
Russian social inequality as a factor of socio-political stability / Gontmakher Evgeny

Pantin Vladimir , Lapkin Vladimir
State-Building in The Republic of Belarus: The Role of Social Cleavages and Political Divides. — South-Russian Journal of Social Sciences. 2022. Vol. 23. No. 2. Pp. 6-17.

Voda Kristina
Азиатские «мозговые центры»: положение в мире и влияние на внешнюю политику [Текст] / К.Р. Вода // Сравнительная политика. – 2018. – Т. 9. – № 3. – С. 5-13.
Related publications


Comments (0)

No comments

Add comment







First news
Institute News
15/01/2025

On January 15, 2024, “Interfax” news agency published an article about the next IMEMO annual forecast “Russia and the World” for the current year 2025.

more...

15/01/2025

We present to your attention the fourth issue of the scientific network journal “Analysis and Forecasting. IMEMO Journal”. The issue has four sections – “Forecasting Studies”, “Development Trends and Risks”, “Dynamics of Social and Political Spaces” and “Global and Regional Security”.

more...

Recently Published