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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on January 17, 2019, 05:53:38 pm
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Russia Warns French TV After France Calls Out Falsified RT Report
RFE/RL
Russia's state communications regulator has told French broadcaster France 24 that it is in violation of a Russian law on foreign media ownership and could have its Russian license revoked.
Roskomnadzor's June 29 notification to France 24 TV came a day after France’s Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) warned the French outlet of Russia’s state-run broadcaster RT about its falsification of facts in a program about the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
The French media regulator's warning said an April 13 broadcast by RT about the use of chemical weapons against civilians in eastern Ghouta had, among other factual distortions and misinformation, dubbed the voices of Syrian civilians saying words they had never said.
Read more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/france-warns-rt-claims-broadcast-syrian-chemical-weapons-attack-douma/29326822.html (https://www.rferl.org/a/france-warns-rt-claims-broadcast-syrian-chemical-weapons-attack-douma/29326822.html)