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U.K. Agency Probes Russian News Channel After Poisoning
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April, 18
The U.K.’s media watchdog is investigating whether the Kremlin-backed RT news channel was biased in its coverage after the poisoning of a former spy in the British city of Salisbury. Ofcom is investigating seven specific reports by RT that might have violated U.K. rules requiring impartiality from broadcasters, the agency said in a statement Wednesday. Ofcom is monitoring the Russian state-funded channel “intensively,” it said. Last month, Ofcom said it has a duty to ensure that all broadcast licensees are suited to hold a license and that it was considering the implications for RT in the wake of the Salisbury poisoning. The U.K. government called the poisoning an unlawful use of force by Russia, which led to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from more than 20 countries. Ofcom has the power to revoke broadcasting licenses of organizations that it considers not “fit and proper” to hold them and serious, repeated or ongoing breaches of standards can cause the regulator to take that step.
Russian state propaganda, owned and managed by the Kremlin. Cut off it's head and be done with it.