The EU sanctioned me and my media outlet for covering Palestine protests in Germany. It’s part of Europe’s growing authoritarianism and militarism, cloaked in language of fighting disinformation and defending democracy.
Hüseyin Dogru and others worked at “redfish”, a russian propaganda outlet owned by russian state propaganda media Ruptly/Russia Today
When “redfish” was sanctioned for being, well, a russian owned propaganda outlet, Hüseyin Dogru was in charge of liquidating the company
At the same time he registered a new company called “red”
He and others from “redfish” seamlessly continued working at “red” (including the managing director of “redfish”)
Their “redfish” telegram channel was simply renamed and is now the telegram channel of “red”
“red” is funded with “donations from [undisclosed] organizations and individuals”
Make of that what you want, but it’s the same people as redfish and they couldn’t even be fucked to get a new telegram channel or at least think of a company name that’s just a tiny little bit more different from the last one. If they’re not a continuation of “redfish” then for some reason they tried really hard to make it look like they are. Hüseyin Dogru calling Ukrainians “nazis” and the threat from russia “fictitious” also doesn’t really help distinguishing them from russian propaganda.
tl;dr:
Make of that what you want, but it’s the same people as redfish and they couldn’t even be fucked to get a new telegram channel or at least think of a company name that’s just a tiny little bit more different from the last one. If they’re not a continuation of “redfish” then for some reason they tried really hard to make it look like they are. Hüseyin Dogru calling Ukrainians “nazis” and the threat from russia “fictitious” also doesn’t really help distinguishing them from russian propaganda.