In the Battle against Media Dystopia

DEAR FRIENDS,
You may be acquainted with SouthFront (southfront.org; ru.southfront.org; https://www.youtube.com/c/SouthFrontVIDEO ), an independent media endeavor that is able to pursue its efforts to accurately inform a global audience solely on that audience’s donations.
You may also know that SouthFront was targeted along with many other dissenting media organizations and investigative journalists and bloggers that suffered from the so-called “shadow ban” – the employment of tailored algorithms and other means by the likes of Facebook, Youtube, Google and a number of other mainstream platforms, to narrow and limit the audience’s ability to reach “undesirable” sources of information.
The ongoing shadow ban is the most recent in a series of attempts to censor and discredit SouthFront. Throughout the years, these attacks became more and more sophisticated, alongside attempts to damage our efforts through various kinds of cyber-attacks.
During a recent hearing of the U.S. Congress’ House Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, the federal government once again declared its aim to censor media organizations that do not align themselves with the corporate, mainstream agenda.
In September 2018, the French Foreign Ministry and the French Defense Ministry released a joint report entitled “Information Manipulation: A Challenge for Our Democracies“. Among multiple issues challenging “democracies” around the world, the report explicitly addressed the role of SouthFront: https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/information_manipulation_rvb_cle838736.pdf
In June 2017, Politico, the most read “Capitol Hill” publication online, and several other top US media outlets released pieces arguing that Veterans Today and SouthFront were shaking the pillars of American society, foremost among them retired and active military members. These articles quoted US diplomats and security officials naming SouthFront as a propaganda mouthpiece of their opponents. http..