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Conservative publishers like National Review, Daily Caller and Newsmax were part of the traffic-swapping network that gave a boost to RT, a site U.S. officials describe as a Russian propaganda outlet. Did they realize?
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How Russia Today Skirts High-Tech Blockade to Reach U.S. Readers
The Kremlin-backed outlet has been boosted by a news aggregator dominated by conservative media sites
On any given day over the past two years, visitors to the home page of RealClearPolitics were likely to see its famous average of political polls, a roundup of news and center-right commentaryand, near the bottom, a link or two to stories from RT.com.
The provenance of the RT headlines was obscured. Readers didnt immediately know they were clicking on headlines from a Russian state-backed publication that American intelligence officials considered the Kremlins principal international propaganda outlet. The news organization, once known as Russia Today, was a central player in Russias efforts to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The U.S. intelligence communitys assessment of the Russian efforts created a backlash against social-media companies, which were accused of providing platforms for a misinformation campaign aimed at influencing voters. Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and others have since implemented changes to limit the reach of state-run media.
Yet RT continues to draw a large American audience, helped unwittingly by some of Americas most prominent conservative websites. The reason: Those news outlets agreed to join a distribution network that allows other members content to be displayed on their home pages.
The company responsible for RTs presence on RealClearPolitics is Mixi.Media. Since its launch in 2018, Mixi has assembled a network of right-leaning publishers, including National Review, The Daily Caller and Newsmax, as well as mainstream sites like RealClearPolitics. Also in Mixis fold are RT and another Russian state-backed outlet, Sputnik.
More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-russia-today-skirts-high-tech-blockade-to-reach-u-s-readers-11602078094
The Kremlin-backed outlet has been boosted by a news aggregator dominated by conservative media sites
On any given day over the past two years, visitors to the home page of RealClearPolitics were likely to see its famous average of political polls, a roundup of news and center-right commentaryand, near the bottom, a link or two to stories from RT.com.
The provenance of the RT headlines was obscured. Readers didnt immediately know they were clicking on headlines from a Russian state-backed publication that American intelligence officials considered the Kremlins principal international propaganda outlet. The news organization, once known as Russia Today, was a central player in Russias efforts to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The U.S. intelligence communitys assessment of the Russian efforts created a backlash against social-media companies, which were accused of providing platforms for a misinformation campaign aimed at influencing voters. Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and others have since implemented changes to limit the reach of state-run media.
Yet RT continues to draw a large American audience, helped unwittingly by some of Americas most prominent conservative websites. The reason: Those news outlets agreed to join a distribution network that allows other members content to be displayed on their home pages.
The company responsible for RTs presence on RealClearPolitics is Mixi.Media. Since its launch in 2018, Mixi has assembled a network of right-leaning publishers, including National Review, The Daily Caller and Newsmax, as well as mainstream sites like RealClearPolitics. Also in Mixis fold are RT and another Russian state-backed outlet, Sputnik.
More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-russia-today-skirts-high-tech-blockade-to-reach-u-s-readers-11602078094
My conservative friends post articles from these "sources" all of the time. I tried to warn them...
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Important: National Review, Daily Caller and Newsmax were part of the traffic-swapping network that (Original Post)
MelissaB
Oct 2020
OP
When they met in person, before COVID became a thing, they called them Circle Jerk Parties.
TheBlackAdder
Oct 2020
#5
LiberalFighter
(51,020 posts)1. RT needs to be banned.
I don't care if so called progressives are part of it.
ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)2. so called being the operative part of the sentence.
big ed and thom 'i chase all shiny objects' hartmann aint that.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)3. Kick
ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)4. and where did mixi media get the money for that.
things that no longer make me go hmm.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)5. When they met in person, before COVID became a thing, they called them Circle Jerk Parties.