Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz presented their new book at King's Russia Institute, King's College London

On 4 November 2024, Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz presented their new book, Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order: RT As Populist Pariah (Cornell University Press, 2024), co-authored with Precious Chatterjie-Doody, Rhys Crilley and Marie Gillespie, at King's Russia Institute, King's College London. Through the prism of the first comprehensive account of RT, the Kremlin's primary tool of foreign propaganda, the book sheds new light on the provenance and nature of disinformation's threat to democracy. Interrogating the communications strategies pursued by authoritarian states and grassroots populist movements, the book reveals the interlinked nature of today's global media-politics pathologies. The book challenges commonplace notions of disinformation as something that Russia brings to the West, where passive publics are duped by the Kremlin's communications machine, and reveals the reciprocal processes through which Russia and disinformation infiltrate and challenge the liberal order.