٠٠:٠٣:٢٥Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the ban on Russian broadcaster RT's Facebook and Instagram accounts would allow the US State Department to limit Americans' access to 'alternative unbiased information', speaking on the sidelines of the Eurasian Women’s Summit in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
"They are directed against Americans, against American citizens, against those who interact with the Russian media, unable to find any other way to express their point of view, and against those who prefer alternative information in order to develop an impartial picture," she added.
US tech giant Meta - the owner of Facebook and Instagram - banned on Tuesday the accounts of RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian news networks for 'foreign interference'.
Later, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and the Rossiya Segodnya media group thanked Washington 'for such an assessment' of RT's performance, adding the company would not stop working.
RT commented on the attack against it, saying it would find other 'cracks' to work in spite of the restrictions.
"Don’t worry, where they close a door, and then a window, our 'partisans' will find the cracks to crawl through – as by your own admission we are apt at doing," it reported.
These statements come after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US, UK, and Canada are launching a 'diplomatic campaign' against RT.
Blinken and US State Department official James Rubin accused RT of attempting to interfere in elections and raise funds to support Russian military units in Ukraine. Rubin also suggested RT's influence might be contributing to a lack of support for Ukraine in the Global South.
On September 14, RT's Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and the Rossiya Segodnya media group called the accusations against their channel 'nonsense'.
"We are not an intelligence service. Maybe we'd like to be, maybe we could hide better if we were, but we haven't learned that, we're journalists, we continue to do our journalistic work," Simonyan said.
She added that neither she nor the company had ever hidden support for the Russian Armed Forces, the people of Belgorod and Kursk, or those in the Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, Kherson and Zaporozhye.
On September 4, the US Treasury Department published a list of 10 individuals and two legal entities from Russia "as part of a coordinated US government response to Moscow's malign influence efforts targeting the 2024 US elections."
Washington has repeatedly accused Moscow of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has found no evidence of collusion or coordination between Trump and the Russian government.
US State Dept trying to stop Americans seeing 'unbiased alternative information' - Russian FM spox on RT's Instagram, Facebook bans
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the ban on Russian broadcaster RT's Facebook and Instagram accounts would allow the US State Department to limit Americans' access to 'alternative unbiased information', speaking on the sidelines of the Eurasian Women’s Summit in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
"They are directed against Americans, against American citizens, against those who interact with the Russian media, unable to find any other way to express their point of view, and against those who prefer alternative information in order to develop an impartial picture," she added.
US tech giant Meta - the owner of Facebook and Instagram - banned on Tuesday the accounts of RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian news networks for 'foreign interference'.
Later, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and the Rossiya Segodnya media group thanked Washington 'for such an assessment' of RT's performance, adding the company would not stop working.
RT commented on the attack against it, saying it would find other 'cracks' to work in spite of the restrictions.
"Don’t worry, where they close a door, and then a window, our 'partisans' will find the cracks to crawl through – as by your own admission we are apt at doing," it reported.
These statements come after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US, UK, and Canada are launching a 'diplomatic campaign' against RT.
Blinken and US State Department official James Rubin accused RT of attempting to interfere in elections and raise funds to support Russian military units in Ukraine. Rubin also suggested RT's influence might be contributing to a lack of support for Ukraine in the Global South.
On September 14, RT's Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and the Rossiya Segodnya media group called the accusations against their channel 'nonsense'.
"We are not an intelligence service. Maybe we'd like to be, maybe we could hide better if we were, but we haven't learned that, we're journalists, we continue to do our journalistic work," Simonyan said.
She added that neither she nor the company had ever hidden support for the Russian Armed Forces, the people of Belgorod and Kursk, or those in the Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, Kherson and Zaporozhye.
On September 4, the US Treasury Department published a list of 10 individuals and two legal entities from Russia "as part of a coordinated US government response to Moscow's malign influence efforts targeting the 2024 US elections."
Washington has repeatedly accused Moscow of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has found no evidence of collusion or coordination between Trump and the Russian government.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the ban on Russian broadcaster RT's Facebook and Instagram accounts would allow the US State Department to limit Americans' access to 'alternative unbiased information', speaking on the sidelines of the Eurasian Women’s Summit in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
"They are directed against Americans, against American citizens, against those who interact with the Russian media, unable to find any other way to express their point of view, and against those who prefer alternative information in order to develop an impartial picture," she added.
US tech giant Meta - the owner of Facebook and Instagram - banned on Tuesday the accounts of RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian news networks for 'foreign interference'.
Later, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and the Rossiya Segodnya media group thanked Washington 'for such an assessment' of RT's performance, adding the company would not stop working.
RT commented on the attack against it, saying it would find other 'cracks' to work in spite of the restrictions.
"Don’t worry, where they close a door, and then a window, our 'partisans' will find the cracks to crawl through – as by your own admission we are apt at doing," it reported.
These statements come after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US, UK, and Canada are launching a 'diplomatic campaign' against RT.
Blinken and US State Department official James Rubin accused RT of attempting to interfere in elections and raise funds to support Russian military units in Ukraine. Rubin also suggested RT's influence might be contributing to a lack of support for Ukraine in the Global South.
On September 14, RT's Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and the Rossiya Segodnya media group called the accusations against their channel 'nonsense'.
"We are not an intelligence service. Maybe we'd like to be, maybe we could hide better if we were, but we haven't learned that, we're journalists, we continue to do our journalistic work," Simonyan said.
She added that neither she nor the company had ever hidden support for the Russian Armed Forces, the people of Belgorod and Kursk, or those in the Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, Kherson and Zaporozhye.
On September 4, the US Treasury Department published a list of 10 individuals and two legal entities from Russia "as part of a coordinated US government response to Moscow's malign influence efforts targeting the 2024 US elections."
Washington has repeatedly accused Moscow of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election, in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has found no evidence of collusion or coordination between Trump and the Russian government.