By Gordon Duff (for nobody…no one would publish this)
Moves by the US government to suppress perceived threats from foreign propaganda organizations has led to extreme problems for members of the media. Many are being threatened with fines and imprisonment and the end result, perhaps purposeful, is a veil of control over honest reporting.
The US effort, at the outset was heavily politicized and efforts to restrain Russian influence ended up attacking journalists politically opposed to Donald Trump and his horrific mishandling of the COVID pandemic, the single biggest blunder in American history.
Thus, when VT was cited as a Russian influence operation by the Department of Justice in November 2018 for backing Biden, and in doing so, directly going against Russia’s primary news outlets, Russia Today and Sputnik News, a pattern was seen.