Скачать или смотреть FACT CHECK: All In for Censorship (and Hypocrisy) at the Kremlin

On April 14, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia was taking steps to be independent from Western information technology in the wake of sanctions prompted by the Ukraine war, including the creation of a “sovereign internet.”

Addressing a Moscow forum titled “Digital International Relations 2022,” Russia’s top diplomat followed now-familiar lines of anti-U.S. and anti-Ukrainian propaganda. He echoed debunked claims of “Western Russophobia,” “Ukrainian Nazism” and “U.S.-developed bio-and-chemical weapons,” and he blamed “the aggressive collective West” for escalating international tensions.

In a swat at U.S. and European Union steps to correct Kremlin disinformation, he lashed out at “Western, primarily American” internet platforms for “shamelessly” blocking Russian news.

“The West demonstrates totalitarian intolerance towards alternative points of view,” Lavrov said. “Democracy, liberalism, pluralism are not observed here. On the contrary, censorship and arbitrariness are intensifying.”

That is false. The totalitarian player here is Russia.

In fact, Western countries endorse freedom of speech and independent journalism at home and in Russia. It’s typically only outlets that spread outright harmful disinformation and falsehoods that come under scrutiny.

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