"You can publish true information even when it offends and indicts the most powerful person in the room... He's being punished because he did the right thing" - Stella Assange

Stella Assange speaking to the Luxembourg Parliament on the persecution of Julian Assange

      • SLfgb@feddit.nlOP
        24·
        1 year ago

        Yes, his independent show was licensed to air on RT, what’s your point. It was also hosted by Youtube, a US military contractor.

        • chaogomu@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          RT is literally state controlled media.

          RT has regularly been described as a major propaganda outlet for the Russian government and its foreign policy.[2] Academics, fact-checkers, and news reporters (including some current and former RT reporters) have identified RT as a purveyor of disinformation[58] and conspiracy theories.[65] UK media regulator Ofcom has repeatedly found RT to have breached its rules on impartiality, including multiple instances in which RT broadcast “materially misleading” content.[72]

          In 2012, RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan compared the channel to the Russian Ministry of Defence.[73] Referring to the Russo-Georgian War, she stated that it was “waging an information war, and with the entire Western world”.[17][74]

          As to the show being “independent”… It was made by Assange, specifically to air on RT. Assange was paid for the show, because that’s how licensing content works.