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The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, September 7, 2024, p. 22
Moscow. Russia is to impose restrictions on US media outlets in response to Washington’s sanctions against the Russia Today (RT) channel and several employees of the network, including its editor-in-chief Margarita Simonian, for allegedly trying to influence the 2024 presidential election.
Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during a press conference that An exactly similar measure cannot be adopted since the United States lacks a state television network or a state news agency.but he assured that There will be an answerRussian media reported.
In the state of war in which we find ourselves, restrictions are justified, as is censorship.Peskov told the Russian state agency TASS.
The US Treasury Department, which also sanctioned two organizations accused of carrying out disinformation campaigns, said that RT recruits covertly and without your knowledge to influencers from that country to carry out actions during the electoral campaign.
Meanwhile, US company Blaze Media fired blogger Lauren Chen for allegedly collaborating with RT. Chen She was a freelance contributor, whose contract has been terminatedBlaze Media CEO Tyler Cardon told news portal Semafor.
In addition, influencers Right-wingers (active in Donald Trump’s ranks) worked without knowing it for one shell company in a Russian operation to spread messages aimed at weakening U.S. opposition to Russian interests, prosecutors there said.
According to an indictment filed the day before yesterday, a media company linked to six influencers conservatives, including Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson, was secretly funded by Russian state media employees to produce English-language videos that were often chords with the Kremlin’s interest in amplifying internal US divisions.
For their part, the influencers They declared that they were unaware of any type of Russian interference in the activities of the media outlet with which they collaborated, whose name was not revealed.
On the other hand, a high-ranking official of the US intelligence services stated yesterday that Russia and China are the most active foreign adversaries when trying to intervene in the presidential elections of November 5, and that Iran has intensified their efforts to influence voters, compared to previous elections.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Naser Kanani said they were unfounded and biased the accusations made by the US Attorney General, Merrick Garland. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared, for his part, The Washington Post: This is not the first time that Russia has been accused of interfering in US elections. Of course, this is nonsense. We are not interfering..