The United States on September 13 said the Russian news outlet RT is taking orders directly from the Kremlin and working with Russian military intelligence to spread disinformation around the world to undermine democracies.
The United States on September 13 said the Russian news outlet RT is taking orders directly from the Kremlin and working with Russian military intelligence to spread disinformation around the world to undermine democracies.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States has gathered new evidence that exposes cooperation between RT and four other subsidiaries of the Rossia Segodnya media group, and it intends to warn other countries of the threat of the disinformation.
In addition to RT, Rossia Segodnya operates RIA Novosti, TV-Novosti, Ruptly, and Sputnik, but the announcement on September 13 focused largely on RT. The outlet, formerly known as Russia Today, has previously been sanctioned for its work to allegedly spread Kremlin propaganda and disinformation.
If it's set in stone now, does it mean they are on the course to further investigate russian and other foreign ties in american media and politics? I' musking for a friend.
I remember when PBS showed RT regularly. I guess they were just doing it because it was international news coverage from a different perspective but the bias became quickly apparent when I watched it a few times. They only reported on negative stories from the United States and everything bad that happened in Russia was due to Western influence.
I'm genuinely confused as to what USA's point is here. I mean they do this constantly. Are they saying it's OK when USA does it but bad when anyone else does it?
I mean it sounds to me like they just don't want competitors.
*Edit: I just want to add, I think Russia should get out of Ukraine and what they're doing is awful. But USA complaining about propaganda from other countries is hilariously hypocritical.