At the end of March, the number of views of posts on the telegram channel of publicist Margarita Simonyan decreased by 52.3% compared to the end of February, according to the calculation of the ChTD channel.
Among the pro-government media channels and bloggers on Telegram, only the Kremlin views. RIA Novosti declined more strongly than Simonyan’s opinions, according to CTD calculations – by 68.1%. On the RT channel on Telegram, which Simonyan heads, views of posts fell by 42%.
CHTD writes that although the “national” instant messenger Max is advertised, only a portion of readers of propaganda telegram channels switch to it. There are no complete statistics on the dynamics of views in Max, as CTD indicates, but according to the same “national” messenger, Simonyan’s posts at the end of February collected an average of about 600 thousand views (with less than 130 thousand subscribers), and at the end of March – three times less. “We can explain” channel He writesSimonyan has 537,000 subscribers on Telegram, and about 165,000 subscribers on Max.
RT, in the program “We Can Explain,” states that it receives about 32-33 billion rubles annually from the Russian budget.
At the same time, in March, when Telegram began to be actively blocked in Russia, the audience of independent media, whose readers, as CHT notes, has long been using VPNs and other means of bypassing the ban, has practically not decreased. Thus, ChTD wrote, in the Russian service of the BBC the same figure decreased by only 9.1%, and in Meduza – by 3.7%.
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In the second half of March, Novaya Gazeta Europe presented its assessment of the impact of blocking telegraph channels of independent and pro-government media. According to its data at the time, views on pro-government Telegram channels fell by 23%, regional channels by 25%, and independent media outlets by 10%.
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