HACKED: DEFINING THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN THE LIBERAL MEDIA.
Despite consensus that Russia's interference in the 2016 election did not extend to actual hacking of voting technology, Russian efforts to intervene on behalf of the Trump campaign have been defıned as "hacking" by elements of the liberal media. This defınition is broadly accepted in liberal circle...
| Publicado en: | Rhetoric & Public Affairs Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 389 - 421 |
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Michigan State University Press
Fall2019
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