Moscow will halt operations of German state-owned broadcaster Deutsche Welle in Russia in response to Berlin’s ban on RT DE. The Russian office of the German state broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW), is to be closed as part of the “first round” of a response to Berlin’s “unfriendly actions” against RT DE, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. The German outlet will... 

President Putin has followed through on his threat to hold YouTube accountable for their mass censorship by issuing a massive fine against the Big Tech company. Earlier this year, Putin warned YouTube that he would do everything in his power to punish them unless they stopped censoring non-mainstream topics from their platform. Now, the Google-owned company will have to a pay a whopping 1 billion... 

Officials in Moscow have issued a sternly-worded ultimatum to YouTube’s parent company, Google, saying the video streaming site could face restrictions after it took down two channels run by RT’s German-language service. In the statement, released on Wednesday morning, the country’s national media regulator, Roskomnadzor, said that it “demands all restrictions be lifted from the YouTube channels... 

Abby Martin, host of “The Empire Files,” joined Radio Sputnik Tuesday to discuss how her talk at an upcoming conference at Georgia Southern University was canceled after she refused to sign a contractual pledge to not support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Now she’s filing a lawsuit in defense of her First Amendment rights. Martin told Sputnik that a lawsuit was filed... 

Facebook has suspended several accounts operated by Maffick Media without prior warning, right after CNN ran a report about the company’s perceived ties to the Kremlin. In what seems to be a new step in the social media giant’s fight against perceived ‘Russian propaganda’, Facebook took down, without prior notice, several pages offering video content. The social media network said... 

Some 800 anti-establishment accounts and pages have been yanked from Facebook in a sweeping crackdown the social media giant framed as a fight against spammers. RT talked to those who were targeted in the cleansing. Among the hundreds of pages and accounts Facebook and Twitter took down were those both on the political left and right, ranging from conspiracy theorists and police brutality watchers,... 

RT programming was removed from its two broadcast frequencies in the DC area. The move proves that claims made by the US government that the channel’s registration as a foreign agent would not affect its work were false. Audiences in the Washington, DC area are no longer able to tune in to RT’s regular air broadcasts. Part of the reason is that MHz Networks, a Virginia-based not-for-profit... 

Google is “deciding what people see,” which is “very dangerous” since they are legally a tech company and do not adhere to any type of editorial standards our guidelines, research psychologist Robert Epstein told Sputnik following Google’s announcement that it was working to make Sputnik and RT articles less visible on its search engine. “It’s not clear Google... 

This is a direct attack on Russia as a country, this is a major movement and even an act of war and for this, I see no reason why Russia shouldn’t completely BAN Google and all its subsidiaries such as YouTube in its entire territory from ever showing up to Russian visitors. Google makes billions from Russia annually with their liberal leftist advertisements, they would regret banning 2 major... 

The Russian former ambassador to the US shared his opinion on the situation around RT broadcaster that had been hit with a barrage of accusations by the West in recent months. The United States’ demand to list the RT broadcaster as a foreign agent is ultimately a crackdown on media and “shameful,” given that Washington has been promoting freedom of the press for centuries, Russia’s... 

The move by Google to expunge RT from its premium advertising service without any prior notice is “absolutely unacceptable” but will not have an adverse effect on the channel’s outreach or its profits, RT Deputy Editor-in-Chief Kirill Karnovich-Valua said. RT, with millions of subscribers across its channels, has for years been ahead of the competition as the most viewed TV news network on YouTube,... 

The award-winning film director believes that the next world conflict could start when the Pentagon decides to bomb the RT TV channel. World War Three will break out when the US finally tires of the RT TV channel, and decides to bomb it; in retaliation, Russia will destroy CNN, writes film director Emir Kusturica, in an article published on Thursday. “Everything is different to how it was during... 

EU leaders will try to develop a strategy to curb “Kremlin propaganda” an issue that is on a par with the Grexit and terrorism threats on the agenda. The leaders of 28 EU countries will discuss ways to clamp down on “Russian propaganda” in light of the Ukrainian crisis during their upcoming summit in June, a diplomatic source told RIA Novosti. “EU leaders are expected... 

Jesse Ventura, the former professional wrestler turned governor of Minnesota, steps into the ring with politicians, journalists and opinion makers for lively debates on his new weekly current affairs program on RT America. “Off the Grid,” a talk show launched by Ventura last year on Larry King’s Ora TV internet network, will join RT’s Friday evening television line-up beginning this Friday,... 

The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange in an exclusive interview to RT (formerly known as Russia Today) called Facebook the greatest espionage tool in history. According to Assange, Facebook automatically collects confidential data of the registered site users, and later this information is transferred to the U.S. intelligence. The founder of the WikiLeaks said in a television interview that Facebook...