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Baltic ban on Kremlin-tied RT step toward dismantling ‘machinery of disinformation,’ says media expert

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Latvia and Lithuania have banned Kremlin-tied RT television channels over links to Dmitry Kiselev, who is sanctioned by the EU for spreading propaganda about Ukraine. “The problem is that RT is a part of this infrastructure of propaganda,” media expert Solvita Denisa-Liepniece told The World’s Carol Hills.

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Russian conspiracy theories: How Kremlin-backed yarns help keep Vladimir Putin in power

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Russia’s RT is contesting the very meaning of ‘truth’

U.S. President George W. Bush departs the Oval Office of the White House for a day trip to South Carolina November 2, 2007.

Russia has a record of disinformation campaigns. So, why wasn’t the US prepared during the 2016 election?

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Xenia Fedorova, chief executive of RT France, of the Russian state broadcaster RT, formerly known as "Russia Today,” poses during a visit to their news studio in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, France, Dec. 18, 2017.

Kremlin-backed broadcaster launches French-language news channel in wary Paris

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Journalists listen to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow

At the epicenter of the Russian election manipulation story, reporters can’t report

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The continuing investigation into Russian manipulation of the US election has helped fuel a media spat between the two countries.

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Russia to retaliate after US tells RT to register as ‘foreign agent’

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State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin charged deputies with updating existing legislation after state-controlled Russia Today (RT) television was ordered by Washington to register as a “foreign agent” by Monday.

Anna Belkina, Director of Marketing and Strategic Development at RT, says RT has not yet published the list of advertisements ”but we probably are going to … in the near future in some way.”

Here are some of the stories RT says it promoted on Twitter

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Days after being banned from advertising on Twitter, Russian-backed media outlet RT has shared some details about the content of its advertisements in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election.

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Twitter bars ads from RT and Sputnik after concerns of electoral interference

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Twitter bars advertising from two Russian news outlets that are accused of interfering in the 2016 US election on behalf of the Russian government.

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‘I’m proud to be American — and that is why after this newscast, I’m resigning’

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Wednesday evening, Liz Wahl, an anchor for the Russian-backed, English language news organization RT, quit on air after denouncing Russia’s invasion of Crimea. Suddenly, RT became known across the social media universe. But Journalism Professor Ann Cooper says it and other state-sponsored news channels generally dwell in obscurity.

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