{"id":3010,"date":"2024-09-13T17:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2024-09-16T01:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T01:39:58","slug":"rt-reveals-secret-behind-its-operations-to-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/rt-reveals-secret-behind-its-operations-to-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"RT reveals \u2018secret\u2019 behind its operations to CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Russian broadcaster has been doing the KGB\u2019s bidding all along, its press office has joked<\/strong><\/p>\n

RT has been operating out of \u201cKGB headquarters all this time,\u201d<\/em> the network joked on Friday, in response to a CNN report claiming that the US government is preparing to accuse it of espionage and \u201cinfluence operations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

According to<\/a>\u00a0the American broadcaster, the US State Department is set to release \u201cdeclassified US intelligence findings\u201d<\/em> suggesting that the Russian government has \u201cquietly embedded an intelligence-gathering unit within RT that is focused on influence operations globally,\u201d<\/em> with this unit\u2019s activities going \u201cbeyond propaganda and covert influence operations to even include military procurement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Approached for comment by CNN, RT\u2019s press office quipped: \u201cWe\u2019ve been broadcasting straight out of the KGB headquarters all this time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNo, but seriously, we\u2019re running out of popcorn to sit and watch what the US government will come up with next about us,\u201d<\/em> the response continued, before linking to a video containing \u201cmore details about how RT operates.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally released in 2015, the video depicts RT\u2019s creative director as a bear, its office cleaning ladies taking their orders \u201cdirectly from the Kremlin,\u201d<\/em> and its foreign staffers chained up in a basement eating rations of McDonald\u2019s hamburgers, delivered by Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan clad in a Red Army uniform.<\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s report comes just over a week after the US Justice Department indicted two individuals\u00a0it identified as RT employees with alleged conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The two were accused of paying American content creators to produce videos aimed at amplifying \u201cdomestic divisions in the United States.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Justice Department claimed that the two suspects \u2013\u00a0named as Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, and Elena Afanasyeva \u2013\u00a0broke the law by not registering as foreign agents, and that paying for this content violated Washington\u2019s economic sanctions on Moscow. However, the charges will likely never be\u00a0contested\u00a0in an American courtroom, as the two suspects are based in Moscow, and the US has no extradition treaty with Russia.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the indictments were announced, Simonyan accused US officials and law enforcement agents of having no \u201cother strategies except to scaremonger about the almighty RT.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

US intelligence agencies have issued sensationalist reports about RT before. Back in 2017, the US Department of Justice forced RT America to register as a foreign agent, after a\u00a0number of outfits\u00a0claimed<\/a> that RT had helped to elect Donald Trump by publishing \u201cnegative coverage\u201d<\/em> of Hillary Clinton and criticizing the US\u2019 \u201ccorrupt political establishment\u201d <\/em>in America.<\/p>\n

According to CNN, the US will shortly unveil measures \u201cmaking it much more difficult for RT to operate globally.\u201d<\/em> American officials will use the upcoming UN General Assembly \u201cto try and build a coalition of countries to take on this challenge,\u201d<\/em> the report noted.<\/p>\n

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The Russian broadcaster has been doing the KGB\u2019s bidding all along, its press office has joked RT has been operating out of \u201cKGB headquarters all this time,\u201d the network joked on Friday, in response to a CNN report claiming that the US government is preparing to accuse it of espionage and \u201cinfluence operations.\u201d According to\u00a0the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evilstore.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}