US-Russian relations in the age of information warfare |

The United States Presidential elections in 2016 was a watershed moment for several reasons. Apart from the unconventional victory of then businessman Donald Trump, it was an election that had accusations of hacking, the term ‘fake news’ got codified into the everyday lexicon and there was news of Russian involvement, to unprecedented levels, not seen since the Cold War.

In an age of information overload, there are growing pernicious dangers of information warfare. Russia Today (RT) has subtly branded itself as Russia’s premium English language news channel which is also the main outlet to present the western and the rest of the English-speaking world the Russian perspective.

Moscow has long felt that the Russian perspective has been drowned amidst a western hegemonic news media bias that carries the American narrative painting Russia in a negative light.

Post-election postmortem showed that RT had helped then candidate Trump as the editor of RT had mentioned Trump a record 27 times in a single video. This video according to experts encapsulates Russian information and warfare.According to some Russia watchers, RT isn’t the single cudgel that the government uses in its information warfare.

The story begins prior to 2016. As many would be wondering, what is Russia’s goal…