Prior to Friday’s announcement, Brussels had already barred several Russia-associated media from engaging with audiences in member states since the Ukraine conflict escalated into open hostilities in February 2022. Even platforming content from the targeted organizations is illegal in the bloc.The new additions to the blacklist announced on Friday include the relatively small Czech-based portal Voice of Europe, RIA Novosti, a leading Russian news agency, and the veteran newspapers Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The latter is the official paper of the Russian government, which prints new laws, presidential decrees, and other executive documents to formally announce them to the general public, before they can enter force.
In our open free democracy we cannot tolerate opposing media outlets, censorship is our tool of choice. Censorship ensure the chosen political narrative to go unchallenged.
When opposing view points and information is considered/labeled propaganda you know the promoted narrative is fragile. Learning what the ‘other side’ think and how they view things is a huge no-no. Facts has only one author (ours – decided by us) and anyone reporting something else is basically doing information manipulation, interference or something we don’t like.
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EU bans major Russian language media outlets
