Digital delegitimization: Biden representations in the astroturfing discourse of the RuNet
Published online on December 27, 2025
Abstract
Media, War & Conflict, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the delegitimization strategies employed by Russian bot networks in constructing the image of U.S. President Joe Biden on the VKontakte platform. Drawing on a unique corpus of 48,000 bot-generated messages (2019–2024), the study ...
This article examines the delegitimization strategies employed by Russian bot networks in constructing the image of U.S. President Joe Biden on the VKontakte platform. Drawing on a unique corpus of 48,000 bot-generated messages (2019–2024), the study ...