RT boss reveals propaganda tricks on Russia's state TV
Created: 2023-01-09 16:49
By: Nicholas Kirk
RT boss Margarita Simonyan supports the Ukraine war with many appearances on state television.
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In a video published on Twitter, RT boss Simonyan is said to reveal how Russia continues to spread its disinformation despite bans.
Moscow - In a video published on Twitter,
Russia Today
chief Margarita Simonian is said to reveal how Russia continues its disinformation campaigns despite blocking platforms like YouTube.
The tweet was shared by Julia Davis, an American journalist who works for the news portal
The Daily Beast
, among other things .
The video shows Simonian - who has been on the EU's sanctions list since February 2022 as a result of the Russian attack - in a format of the state
broadcaster Rossiya 1
with three other interlocutors.
In the 31-second section, she is supposed to talk about the covert continuation of Russian disinformation campaigns, naming the approach, reports fr.de.
RT boss on Russian state television – "so nobody knows it's us"
With the start of the Ukraine war, EU sanctions restricted the broadcasting and social media channels of the Russian state broadcaster
RT
in the territory of the European Union.
In the video excerpt, Simonyan begins to explain that her formats are no longer represented in Western media, for example in the
Telegram news service,
which is also used by Ukraine, among others, to provide information about the war.
“We exist in Russia, in Russian,” Simonyan notes, presumably referring to
Russia Today
media content .
"But our foreign-language 'outlets' aren't." That's why, according to the 42-year-old journalist, it's necessary for your own "partisans to sneak around so that nobody knows it's us."
RT boss on Russian state television - do not "show the trump cards" to the secret services
With the services responsible for monitoring the sanctions, this has apparently developed into a "cat and mouse" game.
From now on, information will no longer be disseminated under “our brand”, as Simonjan describes, but through the opening of YouTube channels, which can generate millions of hits in a very short time.
These would in turn be blocked after a short time in order for the Russian side to react by reopening channels.
"That's how we work at the moment," Simonjan states succinctly.
However, she did not want to reveal "further details" so as not to show the secret services her "trump cards".
Back in November 2022, the
Correctiv
research center published a background report on Russia Today’s circumvention of EU sanctions.
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Meanwhile, in a program on Russian state television, the Ukraine war was legitimized by the Soviet past of both countries.