Russian Government Asks Propaganda Outlets to Cut Back on Pro-Trump Content

According to reporting from Bloomberg Politics, the Russian government has asked their state-owned outlets not to put out as much pro-Donald Trump content.

The reason for the cut-back is multifaceted. For one, the Kremlin reportedly now fears Trump may not be as friendly to Russia as they first thought, after Trump began tweeting out anti-Russia sentiments. “The fate of Russia-American relations is much less predictable than it was just a few weeks ago,” one Russian journalist told Bloomberg.

The Kremlin publicly argues the Russian people simply aren’t that interested in the current “wall-to-wall coverage” of the Trump transition. At the moment in daily coverage, Russian television more often mentions Trump than Vladimir Putin himself.

But Bloomberg suggests the real reason the Trump content is being cut back is because the Russian government is wary of broadcasting some of his more populist rhetoric. “Some of the most popular TV segments on Trump touched on ideas the Kremlin would rather not promote, such as his pledge to ‘drain the swamp,'” they report.

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