Comment by fer

>Redfish forced to cease operations as an official subsidiary of Ruptly/RT

>Immediately after Red Media gets founded by the guy, but now in Turkey

>Redfish social media presence gets renamed to Red Media

>Red Media kept staff, equipment and reused content from Redfish

Tbh I'd be pissed if sanctions could be bypassed by simply changing your logo and handle.

I'd go further and suspect the Russian disinformation apparatus just threw them under the bus for "EU bad" points.

It's such a textbook and standard Russian propaganda practice to finance and push divisive and partial views I'm even surprised people keep falling for it.

Another "journalist" the far left (in Spain at least) considers a martyr. The whole coverage of his arrest was a shitshow (Freedom of expression! Poland is fascist! Freedom for Pablo!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Yag%C3%BCe

Then it was shown he spied on Nemtsov, Polish journalists... and he even hugged uniformed GRU officers upon arrival in Russia as part of a prisoner exchange, while wearing a "my empire needs me" t-shirt.

But this doesn't affect only the far left:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Europe

Anti-immigration, anti EU narratives, solid antisemitic (not just anti-Israel) stances, interviews with all sorts of sketchy characters, the whole set. Luckily for de Vlieger, he had sold the operation to literal Viktor Medvedchuk (and then the platform took a further Russia victim, Ukraine bad turn), so he remains unsanctioned.