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
By
Keach Hagey ,
Emily Glazer and
Rob Barry
Updated Oct. 7, 2020 6:07 pm ET
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 commentary—and, near the bottom, a link or two to stories from RT.com.
The provenance of the RT headlines was obscured. Readers didn’t immediately know they were clicking on headlines from a Russian state-backed publication that American intelligence officials considered the Kremlin’s “principal international propaganda outlet.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-russia-today-skirts-high-tech-blockade-to-reach-u-s-readers-11602078094
Fascinating recent piece. It's behind a paywall and I don't have the time to track down the whole thing. Maybe someone else can post it.