Derange Revolution

Google intends to reduce the number of resources with Russian propaganda in the issuance of its news aggregator. This was stated by Eric Schmidt, the head of the Alphabet holding, which includes Google, Motherboard reports .

“This is mainly Russia Today and Sputnik,” said Schmidt. “We know about it and try to reconfigure the system (issuance) to prevent this.”

At the same time, Schmidt assured that RT and Sputnik will not be blocked. “This is not our way,” said the head of Alphabet. According to him, Google intends to "derange" Russian propaganda resources in the issuance of news.

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said that the department will send a request to Google demanding to explain the term "ranking". “We will express our concern for Google today, ask us, as a regulator of the Russian Federation, to explain what the term“ ranking, ”said Zharov.“ We will send the official statement of the leader, we have channels of interaction with all other international companies. We will get an answer and understand what to do next. ”

“Let's hope that our opinion will be heard, and we will not have to resort to more serious measures,” the head of Roskomnadzor added.

On October 4, Google excluded Russia Today from the premium package on YouTube . The RT channel with 2.2 million subscribers was part of the Google Preferred service selection. It collects the most popular content from which advertisers can choose a video for their advertising. The decision to exclude the channel from the service was made against the backdrop of the investigation of the possible interference of Russia in the US presidential election, the Google spokeswoman said.

On November 13, Russia Today America, at the request of the US Ministry of Justice , registered as a foreign agent .

In response, on November 15, the State Duma adopted amendments to the media law, allowing foreign media to attribute to foreign agents . Now these amendments should be approved by the Council of People's Commissars, and then signed by Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Justice has already notified the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Caucasus. Reals, Crimea. Reals, Siberia. Realii, Idel.real, Azatliq Radiosi, the Current Time TV channel and the Factographer project about the possible inclusion in the media list of foreign agents.