Redfish condemns censorship of media that do not follow the NATO story

In an interview with the newspaper, the director, who created the multi-award-winning digital content based in Athens, denounced the privatization of censorship as being a swirling door between Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in Europe and the United States. Google and TikTok, Western Governments and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The worst thing is that in the name of the fight against misinformation, the critical media is being suppressed, he points out, assuring them that they have intensified it greatly against Redfish.

Dogru said his content was banned worldwide and that his accounts on Facebook and Instagram were blocked in the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom.

In an exclusive interview with La Jornada, Dogru explained that they founded Redfish in 2017 with journalists from different media companies.

Our audience is the oppressed people of the world, whose stories are completely ignored or marginalized by the Western media.

We make extreme left-wing statements and independent video documentaries from parties, governments or institutions, exposing the compulsion of the majority of people around the world and from the point of view of the oppressed.

Over the past five years, the work has been recognized by millions of viewers and followers around the world, especially in Latin America, and has won awards at film festivals and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

On all platforms they falsely label us as “Russian state-controlled media” which restricts the visibility of our content and although we respect them we violate their rules and that is why they never provide evidence, he denounced. Their charges.

However, we were able to significantly increase the number of effective followers. Our readers continue to engage with our content at a higher rate than major media sites such as the BBC, Vice News, and Deutsche Welle.

He assured that since the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, the censorship measures against him have reached serious levels. We are banned worldwide on YouTube, and our accounts on Facebook and Instagram are blocked in the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom.

We can only assume that these actions are the result of a policy developed within the EU over the past five years to crack down on the media criticizing Western governments.

He gave two examples: Mark Smith, the global director of Facebook’s content policy, was an adviser to NATO’s deputy commander. Ben Randa, director of Google’s Security and Public Trust, was also NATO’s strategic planner and information officer.

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