The effectiveness of monetary policy and the political legitimacy of the Federal Reserve depend on monetary policymakers' ability to communicate with the public, which in turn depends in part on the news media. While the finance and economics literature has investigated select aspects of...

Information is a powerful tool used in any society and by any nation to create excepted perception of reality. Russian information operations have always been a very interesting example of using various media to manipulate international and domestic opinion in support of national (government)...