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CNN Pulls Out Of Russia After Putin Signs ‘Misinformation’ Law
Comes after Russia blocks Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
Update (1716ET): This’ll teach ’em… CNN will no longer broadcast in Russia “while we continue to evaluate the situation and our next steps moving forward,” according to host Brian Stelter.
* * * Update (1451ET): Interfax is reporting that a Russian watchdog says Twitter is now blocked in Russia, adding to the western social media freeze that now includes Facebook and access to app stores. * * * Update (1437ET): Vladimir Putin signed several laws on Friday – including one which would seize the assets of foreigners if they harm Russians or otherwise infringe on Russian rights, according to Interfax. The threat comes in parallel with another law signed on Friday which will criminalize whatever the Kremlin deems “disinformation” about the military in a crackdown on “fake information.” As a result, the BBC has pulled all reporters from Moscow. Meanwhile, Moscow has offered foreign companies three options for a path forward: remain in Russia, exit entirely, or hand over their holdings to local managers.
Check back for more updates… * * * Update (1418ET): Following the seizure of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine announced that it was preparing to repel a potential assault by Russian troops near the Black Sea city of Odesa – shortly after the Ukrainians scuttled their own flagship to avoid it falling into enemy hands.
According to the general staff of the Ukrainian army, Russian troops are ‘encircling the capital’ of Kiev. Meanwhile, Russia’s communications regulator has blocked Facebook, according to Bloomberg, citing Interfax.
Check back for more updates… * * * Thursday night was quite the exercise in information warfare, after Russian forces seized control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plan in Ukraine. As a skirmish broke out, Ukraine claimed Russia was “firing from all sides,” and warned that if it blows up, “it will be 10 times larger than Chernobyl,” while also claiming that the facility had been ‘shelled’ and radiation levels were rising. This was quickly debunked by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which reported that there had been no change in radiation levels at the site.
In fact, Russia attacked an administrative complex, not the reactors.
Some have suggested Ukraine was trying to bait the West into greater assistance, while the Associated Press breathlessly repeated the Ukrainian reports.
Russia maintains they used kid-gloves, that the plant is operating normally, and that there’s no threat of radioactive materials escaping. This account appears to be corroborated by a ‘top US nuclear official,’ who told Reuters that the US hasn’t seen evidence that Russia attacked the reactors themselves. According to the Russian UN envoy, reports regarding the attack are ‘lies,’ and that there’s no threat of radioactive materials being released. Now, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says that Russian President Vladimir Putin must ‘stop this madness.’ “By the grace of God, the world narrowly averted a nuclear catastrophe last night,” she said, adding “Cooler heads must prevail. Russian forces are now 20 miles, and closing, from Ukraine’s second largest nuclear facility. So this imminent danger continues(..)The international community must be unanimous.”
‘Cooler heads’ are denying there was anything close to a ‘nuclear catastrophe’ last night, but we digress. Clown World Crisis: Globalists are Gaslighting Humanity Into Submission |
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