{"id":6999,"date":"2025-07-30T04:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/?p=6999"},"modified":"2025-08-13T03:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:49:31","slug":"rt-com-on-tor-censored-by-morons-of-all-countries-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/?p=6999","title":{"rendered":"Rt.com on Tor, censored by ‘morons of all countries, unite!’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More Americans watch RT than CNN \u2013 former US intel chief<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Russian outlet has been facing censorship and legal hurdles in the country since 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. \u00a9  Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RT has a larger American audience than CNN, former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has claimed. Clapper was a key figure behind the Russiagate conspiracy theory, which included claims that RT helped influence the election of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, Clapper’s successor Tulsi Gabbard declassified<\/a> a trove of Obama-era documents which reportedly detail efforts by the two-time US president and his senior officials to distort intelligence on unsubstantiated claims Moscow interfered in the 2016 US election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with CNN aired last week, Clapper doubled down on the conspiracy and accused Russia of unleashing \u201ca very sophisticated, extensive and aggressive information operations campaign to influence public opinion\u201d<\/em> in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dRT\u2026 has a bigger following in this country than this network [CNN] does<\/em>\u201d while accusing it of using what he described as \u201cfake news implants,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clapper claimed that the alleged Russian campaign was aimed at \u201csow[ing] doubt, discord and distrust among the American public.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RT has faced increasing censorship and legal hurdles in the US since 2017, when the Department of Justice required RT America to register as a \u201cforeign agent.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RT America channel was then denied congressional press credentials before being forced to close down in 2022 following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict and the West\u2019s decision to impose unprecedented sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RT content was later restricted and deleted from major digital platforms, including YouTube, where the network had ratcheted up some 5 billion views and several million subscribers, and Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the US also indicted<\/a> two Russians, identified as RT employees, with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), money laundering, and illegally funneling millions of dollars to US-based entities to covertly influence US audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Separately, the US sanctioned RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and other senior RT employees, over alleged efforts to influence the US election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow has denounced the crackdown, calling it a testament to the degradation of US democracy and \u201cits transformation into a totalitarian neoliberal dictatorship.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More Americans watch RT than CNN \u2013 former US intel chief The Russian outlet has been facing censorship and legal hurdles in the country since 2017 Former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. \u00a9  Getty Images RT has a larger American audience than CNN, former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has claimed. Clapper was a key figure behind the Russiagate conspiracy theory, which included claims that RT…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}