Launched 6 November 2014 Owned by (ANO) TV-Novosti Country Germany | Network RT Slogan Erfahre mehr | |
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RT Deutsch is a website based in Berlin. It is part of the RT network, a global multilingual television news network based in Moscow and funded by the Russian government. The website was launched in late 2014.
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RT Deutsch covers Germany and global events from an international and Russian perspective. RT Deutsch positions itself as an outsider with a mission to oppose what it portrays as a pro-war, pro-Western media orthodoxy in Germany.
History
In 2013, RT started a subsidiary called Ruptly, a TV news agency which is based in Berlin. It has 25 offices around the world (including in Washington, Damascus, London, Madrid, Gaza and Cairo).
On 6 November 2014, RT launched a German-language network. The first German-language broadcast of RT German was a political magazine Der fehlende Part (The missing part), presented by Jasmin Kosubek. Starting with five shows a week this number was reduced to three in September 2015 and to one show in February 2016.
Criticism
In Handelsblatt, Andreas Macho concluded after an investigation of the program of the German branch of RT in November 2014: "The bottom line [is that] RT Germany spreads more untruths, reductions and distortions than this - promise as the moderators constantly -. would enlighten". Die Tageszeitung summed up the selection of the interlocutors of the first weeks of RT German with "either flaming anti-American and European opponents of the left and right margins" together. In February 2016 a former employee called RT Deutsch "skilful propaganda" and claimed that they are concentrating on an audience of conspiracy theorists and persons on the far right of the political spectrum.