Russia's RT Network Working Directly With Kremlin To Spread Disinformation, U.S. Says
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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.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      2 months ago

      It’s like saying “Republican party working directly with Fox News, Breitbart, and OANN to spread disinformation”

      Yeah … No shit!

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        2 months ago

        It’s like saying “Republican party working directly with Fox News, Breitbart, and OANN to spread disinformation”

        Can’t be true. That’s just liberals being partisan. Fox is Fair and Balanced. It says do right there on the Chyron.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            2 months ago

            I’m old enough to remember when Glenn Beck and Eric Erikson had hour long programs on CNN.

            They were more than happy to mainline all sorts of bullshit, from “Iraq has WMDs” lies under Bush to Don Lemon’s insistence that a black hole from the LHC had eaten Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. MSNBC hyped “Lab Leak” theory around the COVID epidemic and has spent decades carrying water for the IDF.

            Don’t give these people a pass just because they’re not taking money directly from Rupert Murdoch. Cable News is full of reactionaries and nitwits.

            • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              2 months ago

              I’d give you a source, but I feel like your critical thinking skills are approximately that of a goldfish and I would therefore just be wasting my time.

              • Maeve@kbin.earth
                04·
                2 months ago

                Yes because terms like “unemployment” and “criminal” have static definitions.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Can we get a little deeper of a discussion as our top comment please? We used to be better than this…

      Most upvoted top 2/3rds of the thread are all repeats of the same ‘yeah no shit’.

      The remaining 1/3 is actual discussion…

      • Jumi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        What is there to discuss? The article is just stating the obvious: that a news site called “Russia Today” is in cahoots with the Kremlin, the goverment of a country with state-controlled media and well-known influence on Western media.

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Tactics on how to spot propaganda

          shared stories of propaganda sources exposed

          Little know practices of the putinbots for study purposes

          there’s a fucktonne of stuff that’s better than 35 renditions of ‘no shit sherlok’.

  • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
    01·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    01·
    2 months ago

    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.