RT, Russia's English-language propaganda outlet, will register as a "foreign agent" [View all]
They’re complying with a World War II era-law that was passed to fight Nazi propaganda.
Updated by Zeeshan Aleem@ZeeshanAleemzeeshan.aleem@vox.com Nov 10, 2017, 2:30pm EST
Russia’s 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 Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
It’s 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, RT’s editor-in-chief, said in a statement on Thursday. “Our lawyers say that if we don’t 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 Kremlin’s geopolitical interests.
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