Weapon of mass distortion. How Russian TV channels bypass sanctions and continue to broadcast in EU
Most of these Telegram channels date back to pre-pandemic times. The most popular one, Anti-Spiegel with 95,000 subscribers, was set up in May 2019. Anti-Spiegel is run by a prominent pro-Kremlin propagandist, German national Thomas Röper, who has been living and working in St. Petersburg since the late 1990s. Not only does Röper broadcast his content via Telegram, but he also has a website, a YouTube channel (over 100,000 subscribers), Twitter, and Facebook.