The British government has asked the country’s communications regulatory body to reconsider the broadcasting license of Russian TV channel RT, accusing the company of being part of a “global disinformation campaign.”
On Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries had written to Ofcom, asking it to consider suspending RT’s right to be on British TV screens.
In the letter, Dorries called free media a “cornerstone” of British democracy, but suggested that the Russia-based outlet should be stopped from broadcasting inside the UK.
“RT is demonstrably part of Russia’s global disinformation campaign, as its own editor-in-chief has made clear in the past, who has called the network an ‘information weapon’ of the Russian state,” it said.