A group of journalists of the Russia Today chain (RT in Spanish) will be in charge of “training” the propagandists of the media owned by the dictatorial family in Nicaragua. During their stay in Nicaragua they signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Communication and Citizenship Council, an entity invented and directed by Rosario Murillo to handle the “information” disseminated on the battery of radios, television channels and websites of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega.
Murillo praised the visit of journalists from the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin and assured that the chain broadcasts “truths”, but in practice they defend the interests of the Kremlin and justify their decisions, the same practice that the deputy dictator uses in the Nicaraguan media monopoly. owned by his family.
Following the Putin regime’s military offensive against Ukraine, the RT signal and the Sputnik news agency, also owned by Russia, were blocked in all 26 European Union (EU) countries. The information system of both media would not have any scope for the member states of this community.
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The high commissioner of the EU, Josep Borrell, assured that both platforms are “instruments for manipulation and disinformation”, at the same time that he decreed that the bloc would offer all its support to the independent media of Russia and Ukraine to spread the reality of the invasion. military.
At the beginning of March of this year, Google Europe also announced the blocking of broadcasts on YouTube in Europe by the media linked to the Russian state, RT and Sputnik, as a result of the invasion of Ukraine. Meta restricted access to both Russian media on its social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, at the request of the EU.
The company Microsoft also removed them from its app store, indicating that the tech giants took a new step to limit the influence of Russian media, accused of misinformation by EU countries. The same measure was applied in Peru, Uruguay and Costa Rica, among others.
“Strategic Cooperation”
The Nicaraguan regime and the sanctioned RT news channel signed yesterday, Monday, December 5, a memorandum of “understanding” with the objective of “establish strategic cooperation” among the official media of both allied countries.
José Ulloa, a media analyst for the Voces del Sur organization, considered that the arrival of the propagandists of the Russian regime could be to “fine-tune” some strategies to “violate citizen rights” and “control the citizenry” or “fine-tune the pencil to repress” through information technology. “I don’t see good things (in said visit),” he said to Article 66.
“This training process is nothing more than learning the techniques of lies on how to disseminate information on fake news (false news) from the pseudo-journalists of the Ortega regime,” added journalist Sergio Marín Cornavaca, director of the independent medium La Mesa Redonda.
