Hamilton Weekly Reports

ASD researchers analyze Hamilton 2.0 data to understand the narratives and topics the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian governments and state-funded media are promoting on Twitter, YouTube, broadcast television, and state-sponsored news websites. This reporting provides insight into state-backed narratives from the previous week and provides journalists, researchers, and citizens with information to better shape how they view Russia, China, and Iran’s messaging aimed at the West.

Hamilton Analysis: A Tale of Two Protest Movements: Russian, Iranian, and Chinese Coverage of Protests in Belarus vs. the United States

Overview On August 9, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko declared a landslide victory in an election widely regarded to be neither free nor fair, sparking widespread protests across the country. Since that time, Russian, Chinese, and Iranian [...]

2020-09-09T14:00:01-04:00September 8, 2020|By Amber Frankland, Nathan Kohlenberg, Bret Schafer and Etienne Soula|

Hamilton Toplines: August 21-27, 2020

The major through-line in messaging from Russia, China, and Iran last week was a focus on police brutality, racial justice protests, and violence and unrest in the United States, following a pattern established earlier this year in their respective [...]

2020-09-01T17:01:24-04:00September 1, 2020|By Amber Frankland, Nathan Kohlenberg, Bret Schafer and Etienne Soula|

Hamilton Toplines: August 15-21, 2020

Major news events covered last week by the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian networks monitored on the Hamilton dashboard included the Democratic National Convention, past and present geopolitical developments in the Middle East, the alleged poisoning o [...]

2020-08-25T13:55:13-04:00August 25, 2020|By Amber Frankland, Nathan Kohlenberg, Bret Schafer and Etienne Soula|

Hamilton Toplines: August 8-14, 2020

Iranian, Russian, and Chinese state media and government accounts focused on an array of major developments last week. Iranian accounts continued to cover the aftermath of the Beirut explosion—including continued accusations of U.S. and Israeli invo [...]

2020-08-18T12:14:12-04:00August 18, 2020|By Amber Frankland, Bradley Hanlon, Nathan Kohlenberg and Etienne Soula|

Hamilton Analysis: The Vaccine Race: Russia’s Coverage of the Sputnik V Announcement

Overview On August 11, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had approved the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, which it dubbed Sputnik V in reference to the Soviet Union’s famous orbital satellite—the world’s first in 1957. [...]

2020-08-19T10:20:49-04:00August 18, 2020|By Amber Frankland|

Hamilton Toplines: August 1-7, 2020

Heavy coverage of the explosion in Beirut was substantial enough to break through the coronavirus news cycle, reflected in the fact that #Beirut was the third most-used hashtag by Russian, Iranian, and Chinese state media and government accounts las [...]

2020-08-11T15:22:12-04:00August 11, 2020|By Amber Frankland, Nathan Kohlenberg, Bret Schafer and Etienne Soula|

Hamilton Analysis: How Russia and China Covered the TikTok Ban

Overview President Trump’s executive order last week outlining plans to effectively ban Chinese short-form video app TikTok from the U.S. market triggered a predictable backlash from China’s state media and government officials, who accused the U.S. [...]

2020-08-11T15:06:40-04:00August 11, 2020|By Bret Schafer and Etienne Soula|

Hamilton Toplines: July 25-31, 2020

Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media and government accounts once again took aim at the United States last week, with the most pointed commentary coming from China and Iran. On July 31, a series of tweets from the Supreme Leader of Iran’s many [...]

2020-08-04T12:48:03-04:00August 4, 2020|By Amber Frankland, Nathan Kohlenberg, Bret Schafer and Etienne Soula|

Hamilton Weekly Overview: July 18-July 24, 2020

The Russian, Chinese, and Iranian networks monitored on Hamilton showed little topical overlap last week, save for the ever-present coverage of the coronavirus. Russian state-backed media and government officials pushed back on the U.K. Russia repor [...]

2020-07-28T13:12:35-04:00July 28, 2020|By Amber Frankland, Nathan Kohlenberg, Bret Schafer and Etienne Soula|

Hamilton Weekly Report: July 11-July 17, 2020

Overview Coronavirus coverage was again the primary through line in messaging from Russia, Iran, and China last week, with Russian state media and diplomats touting an alleged breakthrough in the country’s development of a vaccine (a claim boosted b [...]

2020-07-21T16:45:10-04:00July 21, 2020|By Amber Frankland, Nathan Kohlenberg, Bret Schafer and Etienne Soula|

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