Blatant Propaganda, Media Cynicism, and Demand for Independent Information in Autocracies

• In Event: Politicized Information in Autocracies: Regime Strategies and Citizen Responses

Brief Overview

This paper draws on survey experiments to examine whether exposure to outright propaganda by state-controlled media outlets increases media cynicism and reduces trust in independent media among Russian citizens.

Authors

• Alexei Zakharov, University of Chicago

• Anton Shirikov, University of Kansas

• Alexander Libman, Freie Universitat Berlin