State actors investing significantly in different kinds of tools to influence audiences for their own geopolitical ends. We often, I think it's really important here to also make a distinction between overt and covert influence operations. And this is even despite the fact that there have been several sanctions placed on RT as a broadcaster. It operates in multiple languages, and platform companies haven't been as successful at demoting or reducing the spread of non-English state-backed media coverage about the Ukraine war.
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This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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