
Rossia Segodnia is Russia's public broadcasting group. It produces six television channels (RT Group), news agencies (Sputnik, RIA-Novosti) and websites (Voice of Europe). It is now administratively banned throughout the European Union and soon in the USA.
In the West, censorship is nothing more than a method of government from another age. NATO is waging a cognitive war, not against ideas and reasoning,
but to alter citizens' ability to take into account the way other cultures think. This war first led to the banning of the Russian media, RT, Sputnik and so on. Then, today, to exert very strong pressure against journalists, such as Scott Ritter or Jürgen Elsässer, who do not perceive Russians as enemies because they are capable of understanding them.
The Western vulgate on the conflict between the Anglo-Saxons and Russia does not tolerate contradiction. A number of personalities and companies who have reported on a different point of view have been subjected to arbitrary repression.
It all began, in France, during the May 2017 presidential election campaign. Two Russian media outlets, RT and Sputnik, relayed hacked files from candidate Emmanuel Macron's team and a deputy's remarks about his alleged off shore account in the Bahamas. Mr. Macron lodged a complaint against X (i.e. without naming the perpetrator), while the media concerned announced their intention to lodge a complaint for defamation (but the President could not be tried during his term of office). However, the situation remained unchanged until, a month later, Mr. Macron, who had been elected, held a press conference with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Versailles. He then described the Russian media as "an organ of influence [having] repeatedly produced untruths about my person and my campaign (...) Russia Today and Sputnik did not behave like press organs and journalists, but they behaved like organs of influence, propaganda, and misleading propaganda, nothing more, nothing less."
Comment: This story from November 2023 seems to be ground-zero for all the investigations: