The Samizdat Mechanism vs. Russian Propaganda (with Yevgeny Simkin)

Giselle and Iulia are joined by Yevgeny Simkin, co-founder of "Samizdat Online", an organization which aims to gather all voices of the world that suffer under autocratic repression and reunite those voices with their audiences. Yevgeny explains how his organization reaches Russians, inundated with propaganda from the Kremlin, by collecting stories and news articles - which otherwise would be blocked in Russia for political reasons, like the website Meduza - translating them in to Russian where applicable, and by using unique technological tricks to share this banned content through easy-to-share SOS-Link™ links. Yevgeny explains how his team sidesteps Russia's draconian content censorship to share the hidden truth with Russians blinded by years of government propaganda.Show notes: Samizdat Online; "Why Ukraine Is Dangerous to Putin" by Yevgeny Simkin; "A new media project is working to sneak blocked media into Russia and wants to become a hub for press freedom in totalitarian regimes" in Business Insider