The Economy and Public Diplomacy: An Analysis of RT's Economic Content and Context on Facebook
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2024

With globalization's rise, economic interdependence's impacts have become a prominent factor affecting personal lives, as well as national and international dynamics. This study examines RT's public diplomacy efforts on its non-Russian Facebook accounts over the past five years to identify the prominence of economic topics across language accounts. Computational analysis, including word embeddings and statistical methods, investigates how offline economic indicators, like currency values and oil