“Channel not available” is the message that is now displayed when a user searches for the RT France and Sputnik channels on the American streaming platform Odysee. This request, from the Ministry of Digital Transition, comes a few days after the publication of an article by France Inter, which describes the transmission of the RT France channel on the platform.
Jean-Noël Barrot, Delegate Minister for the Digital Transition, welcomed this suspension. “In the fight against propaganda and disinformation, we will not give up,” he tweeted.
Odysee is an American video platform launched in 2020 by American libertarian Jeremy Kauffman. Notably, the platform hosted the movie Hold-Up and the cameramen are paid in cryptocurrencies.
RT France was banned from television broadcasting, but also on platforms within the European Union from March 2, 2022. The website had been removed from search engines and the Twitter, Facebook and Telegram accounts suspended.
RT France had obviously found a way around the regulations by going through Odysee with reports, on-set discussions and featuring original speakers like Alexis Poulin or Karine Bechet-Golovko, according to France Inter’s investigation.
After this suspension, Nadège Abderrazak, a journalist for RT France, reacted in a tweet: “in the fight against censorship and information we will not give up anything.”
On October 12, on the set of France 2, Emmanuel Macron declared that despite the cut “of propaganda on social networks”, the Russian media “continue to find (dissemination) channels”.
Source: BFM TV
