Senate was told the success of Russian media requires changes to propaganda strategy
The success of RT in the Spanish-speaking world means Washington should spend more resources on waging information warfare in Latin America, the influential think tank Brookings Institution has informed the US Senate.
“As a country with 40 million native Spanish speakers and whose national security interests are directly affected by events in the region, the US cannot afford to cede the information space in Latin America to its geopolitical competitors,” Jessica Brandt, a policy director at Brookings, told the Senate Foreign Relations committee last week.
Her testimony, since published as a policy paper, cites the widespread popularity of RT en Español on social media platforms as reason to urge more funding for US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) operations.
According to Brandt, in the first quarter of 2023, three of the five most retweeted “Russian state…
