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In russia? >> well, now its a blackout, essentially, of media. its a total media blackout. its the stone age that has extend on russia altogether. to some degree, i think it is possible. in the beginning, in fact, there was much more opposition, because theres independent tv station. there was tiktok, there were all this other social media that in the last two weeks, closed almost as if the iron curtain of the media just fell down on russia tremendously and in fact, the one i mentioned, the icon...

Now china a near peer there. how does that change how the u.s. needs to think about this? >> we should separate it. both countries have been investing heavily in more nuclear technology in their arsenal. remember both invested and tested hypersonic weapons. we have seen vladimir putin boasting about this the last few years, as has china. and mark milley called it a near sputnik moment. that having been said, given the instability of the region, some of the posturing we have heard out of vladimir...

Going to cut it to ban eu and to ban rt and sputnik, and thats how they decided to go through the economic economic sanctions route. but rt is actually challenging that in front of eu courts. so we will see whether that is legally solid or not. and does it mean, is that is the onus now on the tech companies to block rt voluntarily? i mean, they were in the scope of the sanctions. so the online online channels, telegram channels, youtube channels, facebook. all of that was in the scope, so they h...

Yes, it is never easy with the oligarchs. l yes, it is never easy with the oligarchs. i suspect that there is a lawyer listening to this conversation as well. catherine belton is a great example of how hard it has been for her. im just going to change direction now because i want to pick up on something we talked about a few weeks ago which is the crackdown on russian media channels. laura is a tech correspondent at politico based in paris. it turns out blocking russian backed channels is not as...

Russias space agency has released a video showing the two cosmonauts leaving their american counterpart and detaching the russian segment of the station. >> emily: after which elon musks ads is own video of him flying up and saving him. what breaks my heart is that weve spoken with former astronauts who spoke in on the international space station with the russians and say that the best part is the international relationship. the best part is a human to human relationship developed when you work ...

Anonymous websites, websites that look like research foundations or that are targeted to u.s. audiences but theyre parroting the exact narratives that you would see on rt, sputnik and other russian stayed media. even taking severe action as many platforms have done against the official russian state media outlets doesnt really eliminate the spread of this disinformation, its spreading through a loose network of different . you mentioned zelenskyy and all the ways hes using media. hes on "zakar...

Social media platforms for the most part, but most of them took off, rt took off, sputnik, many of them made clear that there was not american advertising backing that. on the question, and im trying to get more intel on the fake social media posts. this is a little bit of a conundrum. weve got american companies who provide some of the internet backbone for the internet in russia. some of them are exiting. and on that level i applaud and maybe some of those russian social media fake videos cann...

Will you will not hear it you will listen to sputnik part of rt russia propaganda radio station. the only way to get real information is web sites which can you [inaudible] or social media such as telegram and others. but when you turn on tv or radio, no, you will only hear the propaganda telling you how great russian soldiers are fighting nazis in ukraine which is absolutely fake. this is not true. rachel: so interesting talking to you. im sure you have a better handle. something we have been t...

Cards and press credentials. so what happened is european leaders realised that the media regulation was not going to cut it to ban rt and sputnik. and so they went the economic sanctions route. but rt is challenging in front of eu courts. and we will see if that is legally solid or not. is the onus on the companies to block these channels voluntarily? they were in the scope of the sanctions, so the online channels and telegram channels, youtube, facebook, all of that was in the scope, so they h...

Organisations. —— sputnik. not your usual media organisations. -- sputnik. they do use journalists _ organisations. -- sputnik. they do use journalists with - organisations. —— sputnik. tie: do use journalists with actual press cards and press credentials. so what happened is eu leaders realise that a normal regulation was not going to cut it to ban them, so that is why they went to the economic sanctions around. rt is actually challenging but in front of eu courts. we will see if that i...