The narrative fallacy in news coverage of China’s belt and road initiative

• Main Author: Sharma, Shantanu
• Other Authors: Anwitaman Datta
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/139388
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The last two decades connected humanity on a never-seen-before level. Along obvious social and psychological: benefits and detriment arising through rise of connectivity, there was a clandestine and subversive aftermath. Black propaganda is a form of propaganda intended to create the impression that it was created by those it is supposed to discredit. It is typically used to vilify, embarrass, or misrepresent the enemy and mold public opinion. The term fake news, as popularized by Donald Trump, is a subset of such operations. Through analysis of data collected, we would like to identify fidelity of media towards the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) , a multi-trillion dollar project announced by the Chinese government in 2013, and identify if there is a biased sentiment in western media compared to other media outlets. The project contributes a new approach for pre-processing of news data for sentiment analysis and uses data analysis to prove the bias hypothesized.