On 6/11/2020 9:19 AM, Gerry Hickman wrote: > Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote: > >> btw, when I saw "rt" I first thought of the Radio Times. Maybe not. > > RT = Radio Times > > Heh. >
The domain www.rt.com is owned by ANO "TV-Novosti", a Russia-based news service funded by the Russian government. See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_%28TV_network%29>. One paragraph there states (footnotes deleted here): > RT has been described as a propaganda outlet for the Russian > government and its foreign policy. RT has also been accused of > spreading disinformation by news reporters, including some former RT > reporters. The UK media regulator, Ofcom, has repeatedly found RT > to have breached its rules on impartiality and on one occasion found > it had broadcast "materially misleading" content. RT's > editor-in-chief compared it with the Russian Army and Defence > Ministry and talked about it "waging the information war against the > entire Western world." In September 2017, RT America was ordered to > register as a "foreign agent" with the United States Department of > Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Under the act, RT > is required to disclose financial information to the U.S. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Who would you trust to provide accurate information about COVID-19? Doctors who have studied viruses and treated patients for years? Or a TV actor who tweets "cofefe"? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
