{"id":100907,"date":"2019-07-09T01:55:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T23:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/09\/russias-rt-and-sputnik-barred-from-uk-conference-on-media-freedom\/"},"modified":"2019-07-09T01:55:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T23:55:27","slug":"russias-rt-and-sputnik-barred-from-uk-conference-on-media-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=100907","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#039;s RT and Sputnik barred from UK conference on media freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office says news organisations refused entry to London event over their \u2018active role in spreading disinformation\u2019Russia\u2019s RT and Sputnik news organisations have been banned by the Foreign Office from attending a global conference on media freedom in London because of their \u201cactive role in spreading disinformation\u201d.Some 60 ministers and 1,000 journalists and members of civil society are expected to attend the meeting, co-hosted with Canada, on Wednesday and Thursday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/jul\/09\/russia-rt-sputnik-barred-conference-media-freedom\" target=\"_blank\">Russia&#039;s RT and Sputnik barred from UK conference on media freedom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office says news organisations refused entry to London event over their \u2018active role in spreading disinformation\u2019Russia\u2019s RT and Sputnik news organisations have been banned by the Foreign Office from attending a global conference on media freedom in London because of their \u201cactive role in spreading disinformation\u201d.Some 60 ministers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}