Russia’s War on Ukraine
The far-right video sharing outlet has become a last refuge of sorts for Sputnik podcasts.
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By Hailey Fuchs
03/24/2022 05:15 PM EDT
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Forced off mainstream platforms, a number of radio shows associated with Russian state-run media have found a welcome home on Rumble, the video-sharing platform favored by conservatives and the far right.
Over the past few weeks, four shows on Sputnik, a news agency and radio broadcaster controlled by the Russian state media group Rossiya Segodnya, began broadcasting on Rumble, which has become popular with the far right and Donald Trump-supporting crowd. Their adoption of the venue has come following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after which platforms like Google and DirecTV booted Russian programming off their services.
