In an interview granted to the newspaper, the director of the Athens-based multi-award-winning digital content creator denounces the privatization of censorship in Europe and the United States, as if there were a revolving door between Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google and TikTok, western Governments and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The worst thing is that in the name of fighting disinformation, critical media are being suppressed, he stresses and assures that they have greatly intensified the fight against redfish.
Dogru said his content is banned worldwide and his accounts on Facebook and Instagram are blocked in the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom.
In an exclusive interview with La Jornada, Dogru explained that they founded Redfish in 2017 with journalists from various media outlets.
Our audience are the downtrodden peoples of the world whose stories are completely ignored or marginalized by the western media.
We make radical left reports and independent video documentaries from parties, governments or companies, from the point of view of the oppressed and to show the reality in which the majority of people around the world have to live.
Over the past five years, this work has been recognized by millions of viewers and followers around the world, especially in Latin America, and has been recognized at film festivals and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
He denounced that they mislabeled us as “Russian state-controlled media” across all platforms, resulting in restricting the visibility of our content, saying that although we respect them, we are breaking their rules and that they therefore never provide evidence of their allegations.
Nevertheless, we were able to significantly increase the number of effective followers. Our readers consistently engage with our content far more often than major media platforms such as the BBC, Vice News, Deutsche Welle, etc.
He asserted that since the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, the censorship measures against him had reached an extreme level. We are banned on YouTube worldwide and on Facebook and Instagram our accounts are banned in the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom.
We can only assume that these measures are the result of policies developed within the European Union over the past five years, in which they crack down on media critical of Western governments.
He gave two examples: Facebook’s global director of content policy, Mark Smith, was an advisor to the NATO deputy commander. Google’s director of security and public trust, Ben Randa, was also a NATO strategic planner and information officer.
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