Facebook Bans RT and Other Russian State Media
Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — said on Monday that Russian state media outlets have been banned from its platforms worldwide for “foreign interference activity.”
Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — said on Monday that Russian state media outlets have been banned from its platforms worldwide for “foreign interference activity.”
The EU banned four more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the bloc over alleged propaganda and disinformation.
The Kremlin and Russian state media have attempted to blame Ukrainian “interference” for the shocking scenes witnessed in Dagestan on Sunday.
Wisconsin Senate Democrat candidate Mandela Barnes denounced U.S. policing policies on Russia Today (RT), a state-run propaganda channel in 2015 and 2016.
A report conducted by a number of think tanks has found that so-called “disinformation” had little effect on recent elections in France.
Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre announced that his country will not block Russian state media, stating he is against censorship.
Ofcom announced that “with immediate effect” Russia’s state-funded news channel RT will have its licence to broadcast in Britain revoked.
As well as economic sanctions on Russia, several attempts to isolate the Eurasian state culturally are also underway.
The soft-on-crime policies of the left and Democrats are a “recipe for destroying civilization,” said Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
BERLIN (AP) – Luxembourg has rejected an application by Russian state broadcaster RT for a licence to distribute its German-language service via satellite.
Leftist director Oliver Stone sat down with former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa for an interview on Russia Today (RT), where he insisted President Ronald Reagan declaring the Soviet Union the “evil empire” should apply to the United States.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) wants to end the circulation of the Chinese communist government’s China Daily to members of Congress.
Russian state propaganda network Russia Today offered former Bolivian President Evo Morales a job as a presenter just hours after his resignation on Sunday evening.
Hollywood actor and Hellboy star Ron Perlman has announced a “break” from Twitter and hinted that he feels like the lone anti-President Donald Trump voice speaking “in the wilderness.”
Contents: Britain threatens Russia with retaliation over nerve gas poisoning of Skripal; Russia reacts with massive disinformation campaign; Skripal was attacked with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent developed by Russia
Sources within the Russian parliament said on Monday that foreign media organizations would soon be required to register as agents of foreign governments, with a possible outright ban to follow. The move is seen as retaliation against the United States for sanctions on Russia over interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Google is planning to “engineer” Russian news outlets, including Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik News, out of Google News results.
Russian media regulation agency Roskomnadzor on Friday accused CNN International of unspecified violations of Russia’s media laws, ominously suggesting that the network may have violated the terms of its broadcast license.
Hacking initiative Wikileaks has said it is “skeptical” that the large cache of data hacked from French Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign includes faked material. As much as nine gigabites of hacked material, including tens of thousands of staff emails,
(AFP) – The editor-in-chief of Kremlin-funded television network RT said Monday that all its bank accounts in Britain have been closed down. “They have closed our accounts in Britain. All the accounts,” wrote RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan on Twitter. She
After a long week of criticizing Donald Trump, an exasperated Hillary Clinton attacked Trump for appearing on Russian funded television.
JAFFA Israel – Russia is about to augment its economic and commercial ties to the Arab world, Russia Today’s Arabic-language channel reported. According to the network’s website, the Tunisian ambassador to Moscow told a local news agency that his country would
A reporter from Russia’s state funded network Russia Today accosted Home Secretary Theresa May as she was getting into her car, nearly pushing a nearby woman over in order to shout pro Jeremy Corbyn questions at her. Afshin Rattansi, who hosts Russia
Last year, MSNBC dumped Ed Shultz, the low-rated, left-wing loudmouth who had been part of the cable news network’s primetime line-up. With Al Jazeera America going out of business, that left only one place for the Central Government-loving Schultz to
Russian propaganda site Russia Today (RT) is offering its readers a brand new site to navigate the Western media, detailing the biases and shortcomings of American media outlets from the eyes of the Kremlin.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan now claims he possesses evidence that Russia purchased oil from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). His accusations come a day after the Russian government said it had proof Erdoğan’s family benefits from ISIS oil.
The top French weatherman who was sacked from his state broadcaster for speaking inconvenient truths about the non-existence of “man-made-global-warming” has taken exquisite revenge on the alarmist establishment: now he’s got a new job broadcasting from the Kremlin’s propaganda arm, pouring
Mikhail Lesin–who, in addition to being a Putin confidant, was the inspiration for Russia Today (RT), the state-run Kremlin news service–was found deceased in his hotel room at the Dupont Circle Hotel on Thursday, according to reports.
Two Russian media outlets are reporting that Secretary of State John Kerry invited Russia and China to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade deal.
In a clip released Tuesday by Kremlin propaganda outlet Russia Today, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused Europe of “not dealing with the crisis” as thousands of refugees flee the war-torn country.
Russian officials denied reports that the government placed Russian soldiers in Syria and deployed fighter jets. Reports of Russian activity in the war-torn country swarmed the internet this week.
The Kremlin will stop at nothing to fully control all forms of media in Russia. The latest step included threats to Google, Facebook, and Twitter from Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor.
A stringer for the Russian-owned Russia Today news network was frightened to find herself mobbed and then robbed by a crowd of unruly rioters during the growing riots in Baltimore on Saturday evening.
The Russian propaganda machine is desperate to discredit Ukraine and will use anyone to achieve its goal. The latest victim is ex-porn star Sasha Grey, whose obituary was posted on Russian social media sites. The Ukrainian army, the post claimed, kidnapped, raped, and butchered her in revenge for her work nursing wounded pro-Russian soldiers.
A recent controversy on FOX News following the Islamist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has rekindled a debate over the existence of “no go” areas in France and Britain, allegedly controlled by Muslims and off-limits to whites and Christians. Those areas exist, as ample research and video evidence proves.
Yevgeny Savostyanov, head of Russia’s Coordination Council on Intellectual Property Protection, quit after he witnessed a major crackdown on cultural “matters of public interest” within Russia. He criticized Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky in an open letter before he left.