While the free world continues to sound the alarm about Russia’s influence in Europe, little attention has been paid to the damage Moscow is causing in America’s hemisphere. Russian state media mixes fact with fiction to create confusion, trigger emotions and diminish trust in democratic institutions.
The Kremlin’s false narratives, which appear in Russian state-sponsored press reports, social media platforms and the personal pages of Kremlin officials, influence Hispanic Americans and Latin Americans to distrust the United States and support candidates and policies that favor Moscow.
RT (Russia Today) en Español has offices throughout Latin America and more than 200 Spanish-speaking employees in Moscow. In 2023, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford found that “RT en Español is more successful than any of the other services of RT, which include English, Arabic, German and French,” and that “Spanish-language channels became even more important after Vladimir Putin launched [a] full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.”
The most used key word in RT en Español website’s news subheadlines is “EEUU,” the abbreviation for the United States in Spanish, according to a 2020 analysis done by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. The council also found that RT en Español’s Facebook page shared more links about the U.S. than any Latin American country.
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The Kremlin’s false narratives, which appear in Russian state-sponsored press reports, social media platforms and the personal pages of Kremlin officials, influence Hispanic Americans and Latin Americans to distrust the United States and support candidates and policies that favor Moscow.
RT (Russia Today) en Español has offices throughout Latin America and more than 200 Spanish-speaking employees in Moscow. In 2023, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford found that “RT en Español is more successful than any of the other services of RT, which include English, Arabic, German and French,” and that “Spanish-language channels became even more important after Vladimir Putin launched [a] full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.”
The most used key word in RT en Español website’s news subheadlines is “EEUU,” the abbreviation for the United States in Spanish, according to a 2020 analysis done by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. The council also found that RT en Español’s Facebook page shared more links about the U.S. than any Latin American country.
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Russia is turning Latin America against the U.S. with veiled propaganda
While the free world continues to sound the alarm about Russia’s influence in Europe, little attention has been paid to the damage Moscow is causing in America’s hemisphere.
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