The production company behind the American version of the Russian state-funded network RT laid off most of its staff on Thursday, according to a memo obtained by CNN.

Misha Solodovnikov, the general manager of the production company, T&R Productions, told staff that it will be “ceasing production” at all of its locations “as a result of unforeseen business interruption events.”

Source: RT America ceases productions and lays off most of its staff | CNN Business

I feel badly I had succumbed to occasionally watching RT programming. I now question whether all content out of Russia – including seemingly benign social media (e.g. Youtube videos) about life, culture and history of Russia – could have potentially been propaganda messaging softening us for this day? We have no way of knowing what was legitimate and what was not. (Same for much of what appears on social media, of course.)