Re:Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising
by fpig on Thursday October 26, 2017 @11:55AM
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I don't understand what is fuzzy about it - Deutsche Welle might be a state actor but the US intelligence agencies apparently don't consider it hostile/dangerous to the US. This argument basically comes down to the childish "if they don't take money from 1 state actor, they should stop taking money from every state actor in the world".
To me it makes perfect sense that when a foreign state actor is determined to be hostile to your country by your intelligence community, that you are going to stop accepting money from them.
Also seems (if RT is telling the truth) that the paid RT election propaganda on twitter was actually twitter's idea that they pitched to RT, so perhaps twitter got greedy and is complicit (as opposed to just having ran ads indiscriminately) and now they're trying to wash their hands to avoid a PR disaster.
To me it makes perfect sense that when a foreign state actor is determined to be hostile to your country by your intelligence community, that you are going to stop accepting money from them.
Also seems (if RT is telling the truth) that the paid RT election propaganda on twitter was actually twitter's idea that they pitched to RT, so perhaps twitter got greedy and is complicit (as opposed to just having ran ads indiscriminately) and now they're trying to wash their hands to avoid a PR disaster.
Link: https://twitter.com/M_Simonyan/status/923519609269116928