State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe: How Politicians Deceive Their Citizens

This book explores the pervasive and globalized trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicians.

With an international team of expert authors, this volume meticulously scrutinizes instances of State-sponsored disinformation across a diverse spectrum of 14 countries encompassing Western and Eastern Europe, North and Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It examines how political landscapes amplify or constrain disinformation, advancing a comprehensive understanding of its dynamics in the contemporary global milieu. The book is organized in three sections that gather case studies from democratic, non-democratic and transitional regimes.

Advancing the field of misinformation and disinformation studies by specializing in State-sponsored operations and their consequences, this book will be an essential volume for scholars and upper-level students of media and communication studies, journalism, political communication, disinformation and misinformation, social media, sociology and international politics.

Martin Echeverría is Professor at the Center of Studies in Political Communication at Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico. His work has been published in the International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Communication, Journalism Studies, and other leading Ibero American journals. He is Co-Chair of the Political Communication Section of IAMCR and his latest publication is Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy (Routledge, 2023).

Sara García Santamaría is a UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Bristol, UK). Her work has been published in Digital Journalism, Media and Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications and Trípodos, among others. She is Vice-Chair of the Political Communication Section, IAMCR and her latest publication is Cuba’s Digital Revolution (2021).

Daniel C. Hallin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The ＂Uncensored War＂ The Media and Vietnam, Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics, and Making Health Public, among other works.