{"id":34137,"date":"2025-06-26T12:50:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=34137"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:05:11","slug":"rt-is-running-a-large-scale-propaganda-campaign-in-italian-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/rt-is-running-a-large-scale-propaganda-campaign-in-italian-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"RT is running a large-scale propaganda campaign in Italian cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia has launched an aggressive advertising campaign for its propagandist documentaries in Italian cities \u2014 Rome, Milan, and Bologna. RT posters featuring the slogan \u201cThey ban the truth \u2014 we show it!\u201d have sparked outrage among Italian politicians and members of the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fIn classic propaganda style, russia attempts to portray the fight against disinformation as \u201ctruth censorship.\u201d The goal is to sow doubt among European audiences regarding freedom of speech. This tactic aligns with kremlin\u2019s broader strategy \u2014 disguising lies as alternative viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>These films are yet another attempt to legitimize russian propaganda within the European information space. Although RT is officially banned in the EU, it seeks to bypass restrictions through local projects, media intermediaries, and hybrid operating formats.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Vincenzo Lorusso \u2014 a journalist who was among the participants of a russia-organized press tour to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine \u2014 is actively involved in the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia has launched an aggressive advertising campaign for its propagandist documentaries in Italian cities \u2014 Rome, Milan, and Bologna. RT posters featuring the slogan \u201cThey ban the truth \u2014 we show it!\u201d have sparked outrage among Italian politicians and members of the public. \u25ab\ufe0fIn classic propaganda style, russia attempts to portray the fight against disinformation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}