Blinken Announces Sanctions Against RT for Allegedly Being Part of Russia’s Intelligence Network

The only surprising thing here is that this didn’t come earlier.

RT is extremely popular all over the world, and is still really popular in the US, even after they banned it from YouTube.

They give good information, and they are the most well put-together alternative media outlet in English.

The Guardian:

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has announced new sanctions against the Russian state-backed media company RT, formerly known as Russia Today, after new information gleaned from the outfit’s employees showed it was “functioning like a de facto arm of Russia’s intelligence apparatus”.

The Russian government in 2023 established a new unit in RT with “cyber operational capabilities and ties to Russian intelligence”, Blinken claimed, with the goal of spreading Russian influence in countries around the world through information operations, covert influence and military procurement.

“Today, we’re exposing how Russia deploys similar tactics around the world,” Blinken said. “Russian weaponization of disinformation to subvert and polarize free and open societies extends to every part of the world.”

The US treasury would sanction three entities and two individuals tied to Rossiya Segodnya, the Russian state media company, Blinken said. The decision came after the announcement earlier this month that RT had funneled nearly $10m to conservative US influencers through a local company to produce videos meant to influence the outcome of the American presidential election in November.

They’re never going to tell you which lie RT told, what piece of disinformation. They don’t want to have a debate about that. They would lose.

Just so, we’re never going to hear about the disinformation spread by the New York Times, which has been responsible for the most destructive hoaxes of the age, including the virus hoax and the Iraq WMD hoax. The Times basically claimed that Saddam did 911. They are the biggest fake news outlet ever. But they’re not getting sanctioned, because every hoax they do serves Jewish interests.

By the way, the Secretary of State announcing sanctions on a media outlet is new. This is something totally new.