The EU has announced that it will ban RT and Sputnik. According to Politico EU:
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Sunday that Kremlin-backed RT, formerly known as Russia Today, and Sputnik, would be banned in the EU.
“We will ban the Kremlin’s media machine in the EU. The state-owned Russia Today and Sputnik, and their subsidiaries, will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin’s war,” she said.
“We are developing tools to ban their toxic and harmful disinformation in Europe,” von der Leyen added, without providing more details.
I would have quoted from RT’s article about this but I’m now having trouble accessing RT’s website.
The OSCE is reporting that in Russia, media outlets that don’t toe the official narrative are being threatened with censorship as well:
On 26 February the Russian media regulatory agency Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media), under the threat of hefty fines and blocking, demanded that at least 10 media outlets, including Ekho Moskvy, InoSMI, Mediazona, The New Times, Dozhd, Svobodnaya Pressa, Krym.Realii, Novaya Gazeta, Jurnalist and Lenizdat, remove materials about the war in Ukraine. Roskomnadzor reportedly said that these media outlets published “false information” about the shelling of Ukrainian cities by the Russian armed forces and the death of Ukrainian civilians, as well as materials in which the Russia’s ongoing military operation is called an attack, an invasion, or refers to a declaration of war.
This was inevitable, alas…….