Russia Insider
| A "pro-Russian" news aggregator that alienated many earlier contributors. From 2024 "under new management" deleted from archive.org and given a pro-NATO slant. |
Started: September 2014
Founder: Charles Bausman
In its own words:
"Taming the corporate media beast"
Russia Insider was a news website launched in September 2014, reports on political and social affairs and claims to provide an alternative view to the mainstream news about Russia and country-related issues.[1] Under "new management" from around 2024, the site was deleted from archive.org and given a pro-NATO slant.
Overview
The website was founded and driven by its editor Charles Bausman and volunteer contributors, at the beginning almost all based in Moscow,[2] reportedly to promote a better understanding of Russia. The website collected ('aggregates') news articles already published other places.
Honey trap accusations
A change in editorial line around 2015 (with accusations of Russia Insider being a honey trap by US intelligence services) led to a decided narrower focus on what was chosen for publication. Marko Marjanović, who previously was one of the editors of the site, left and set up his own news aggregator, anti-empire.com, and several earlier formerly enthusiastic participants including the Saker, started boycotting the site.
Criticism
Russia Insider has been criticised for being "pro-Russian" and "pro-Kremlin".[3][4][5][6][7][8]
Replaced
From approximately 2024 the website was taken over by a "new management", with articles such as "What Does Putin Have on Trump?"[9] The articles no longer aggregated from others sites, and are unsigned.
Deleteted from archive.org
Russia Insider has been deleted from archive.org.[10]
References
- ↑ http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Greenwich-native-launches-alternative-news-site-6166911.php
- ↑ https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/expats-launch-new-site-to-defend-russia#.exzVQve60
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhimler/2015/03/10/russia-hacking-the-news
- ↑ http://www.newsweek.com/russia-putin-bots-linkedin-facebook-trump-clinton-kremlin-critics-poison-war-645696
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180315153848/https://euvsdisinfo.eu/antisemitism-and-pro-kremlin-propaganda/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180315165412/https://thinkprogress.org/acewa-anti-semitic-board-member-cf4a2e69e082/
- ↑ http://www.interpretermag.com/is-russia-insider-sponsored-by-a-russian-oligarch-with-ties-to-the-european-far-right/
- ↑ https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/thurs-commission-official-russian-propaganda-has-deeply-penetrated-eu-countries/
- ↑ https://russia-insider.com/politics/what-does-putin-have-on-trump
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240501000000*/https://russia-insider.com/