{"id":409,"date":"2025-07-22T00:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirsavoltren.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:10:15","slug":"rt-editor-in-chiefs-x-account-blocked-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirsavoltren.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/rt-editor-in-chiefs-x-account-blocked-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"RT editor-in-chief\u2019s X account blocked in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margarita Simonyan said she has \u201cno idea\u201d why the restriction was imposed<\/strong><\/p>\n

RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan’s X account has been blocked in France as Western countries continue to crack down on Russian media.<\/p>\n

According to X, the account was withheld in response to an unspecified legal demand. It remains unclear when access was restricted.<\/p>\n

“My X account has been blocked in France. I have no idea what I did to offend [French President Emmanuel] Macron – I haven’t even been saying that his wife is a man,”<\/em> Simonyan wrote on Telegram on Monday, referring to claims that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is secretly a man.<\/p>\n

Macron has long accused RT of spreading falsehoods but has not provided evidence, first making the allegation during his 2017 election campaign.<\/p>\n

The EU and UK have banned RT and several other Russian media outlets since 2022, accusing the channel of spreading propaganda during the Ukraine conflict. Moscow has responded by banning a number of Western state-funded networks, including the BBC and Deutsche Welle. <\/p>\n

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described the crackdown on Russian media in the West as “global censorship and a regime of zero tolerance for dissenting opinions.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Earlier this year, prosecutors in Paris launched an investigation into X on suspicion that Elon Musk’s platform was being used to meddle in French politics. The company denounced the probe as politically motivated and accused France of attempting to restrict free speech.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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