In total, they are read by 15.7 million users, although subscribers of different audiences may overlap. Every day, posts from these sources are checked an average of 100 million times.
Russian propaganda has created a network of 800 channels on the Telegram network to spread the Kremlin’s influence abroad, writes Novaya Gazeta. Europe.
Despite the fact that the EU and the US banned the broadcasting and replication of the content of Sputnik and RT for systematic manipulation of information and disinformation, and YouTube, TikTok and Instagram blocked their accounts, sources found a loophole pro-government media allowing them to increase. their overseas audience 2.3 times during the two years of the war.
In 2024 alone, about 800 pro-Russian channels were found in the foreign segment of Telegram, supporting Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, spreading Kremlin conspiracy theories and translating reports from Donbass in 30 language.
In total, they are read by 15.7 million users, although subscribers to different public pages may overlap. Every day, posts from these sources are checked an average of 100 million times.
The official telegram channels RT and Sputnik successfully bypassed the blocking, with the creation of mirrors. As a result, they managed to increase the number of channels from 35 to 54, and views by 1.5 times. For example, after the start of the war, several copies of Sputnik in Spanish and a new Sputnik Lithuania appeared on Telegram. Repeatedly blocked RT in English is now found as rtnews_unc3, and the documentary channel is now found as rtdocumentary_unc. In 2023, their posts received an average of 8.3 million views per day.
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