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Russias state-owned media outlet, RT, has announced that it will comply with US government demands to register as a foreign agent of the Russian government, amid controversy over Russias attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Its a move that effectively marks the network, which runs both a website and a cable television channel, as a propaganda outfit for Moscow.
The American Justice Department has left us with no choice, Margarita Simonyan, RTs editor-in-chief, said in a statement on Thursday. Our lawyers say that if we dont register as a foreign agent, the director of our company in America could be arrested, and the accounts of the company could be seized.
RT, which began as Russia Today in 2005, is headquartered in Moscow, with English-language studios in Washington, DC, and Europe. Its critics in the US have long argued that its critical and conspiratorial coverage of the American government is motivated by the Kremlins geopolitical interests.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/11/10/16633586/rt-russia-propaganda-foreign-agent
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)To tell you it's at least as good as American corporate media and it's okay that Thom Hartman is there.
Ed Schultz still on RT?