Although Fox News has supported conspiracy theorists
[15] including
Birthers,
[16] Russia Today is the only international news organisation that promotes conspiracy theories on an
industrial scale. For example there is a compilation of, originally no less than 56 Russia Today YouTube videos on
9/11 (7 now deleted).
[17] The majority publicise, and clearly support, conspiracy theories. The remainder involve other criticisms of the United States.
Conspiracy-related posts form the bulk of all comments on the majority of videos published by RT online.
RT regularly features interviews with
cranks as experts on various subjects. The conspiracy theories that it gives publicity to are generally those that portray the US as deeply amoral, malicious and/or doomed to failure but, as a government mouthpiece of the world’s No. 1
fossil fuel supplier, RT has also featured
global warming conspiracy theory proponents e.g.
Piers Corbyn,
[18] Christopher Monckton,
[19][20] and
Patrick Michaels.
[21] Other examples are in a compilation of 7 videos on “
Climategate.”
[22]
Uber-conspiracy theorist
Alex Jones has been interviewed on numerous occasions by RT,
[23][24][25][26] and other conspiracy theorists that have appeared as guests on his
radio program and been interviewed (in most cases several times) by RT include
Mike Adams,
[27] Mark Dice,
[28] David Ray Griffin,
[29] Jesse Ventura,
[30] Lyndon LaRouche[31] and
Gerald Celente.
[32] It's a needle-thread away from
Scopie's Law status.
Alongside nutty conspiracy theorists, RT had also given voice to genuine
whistleblowers from the Western world, like
Julian Assange or
Edward Snowden, while at the same time (unsurprisingly) ignoring Russian dissenters.