RT, previously known as Russia Today, was censured by the British media regulator OfCom this week. This time, it was for lack of impartiality in its coverage of Turkey.
“Among a number of allegations on the programme it said Turkey had been supporting Islamic State while conducting the ‘bloodiest genocide in Kurdish history’,” writes The Guardian.
Although there were numerous allegations against the Turkish government in two programmes broadcast in March, there was just one single comment in them that presented the point of view of the Turkish authorities. According to OfCom, the channel “failed to preserve due impartiality in these matters over a series of programmes taken as a whole”.
This is already the fifteenth time that RT was censured by the British media regulator.
The Kremlin-backed channel is criticized not only by British authorities, but also by the expert community.
Ben Nimmo, senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft in London specialised in analysing information warfare and hybrid warfare, showed some time ago that the coverage of pro-Kremlin media outlets like RT or Sputnik was heavily skewed in favour of Brexit. Read the whole OfCom report.