Advertisements from a Russia-funded news outlet that appear to make light of Hillary Clinton’s loss to President Trump in last year’s election will be removed from D.C. streets after the outlet said federal officials asked it to register as a foreign agent.
RT, formerly known as Russia Today, is a cable channel and website funded by the Russian government. Last month, the company announced that the Department of Justice asked it to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a law passed in 1938 to fight German propaganda on the eve of World War II.
“The war the US establishment wages with our journalists is dedicated to all the starry-eyed idealists who still believe in freedom of speech,” RT Editor in Chief Margarita Simonyan said at the time. “Those who invented it, have buried it.”
“Stuck in traffic?” one ad reads. “Lost an election? Blame it on us!” Another says: “The CIA calls us a ‘propaganda machine.’ Find out what we call the CIA.”