{"id":149417,"date":"2025-06-18T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/the-african-initiative-russian-backed-outlet-peddles-propaganda-to-buy-influence-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:49:12","slug":"the-african-initiative-russian-backed-outlet-peddles-propaganda-to-buy-influence-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/the-african-initiative-russian-backed-outlet-peddles-propaganda-to-buy-influence-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The African Initiative: Russian-backed outlet peddles propaganda to buy influence in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The individuals who run the African Initiative media outlet are reportedly connected to Russian intelligence services, while others are former members of the Wagner paramilitary group, according to France&#8217;s agency for monitoring foreign digital interference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/06\/18\/the-african-initiative-russian-backed-outlet-peddles-propaganda-to-buy-influence-in-africa\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The individuals who run the African Initiative media outlet are reportedly connected to Russian intelligence services, while others are former members of the Wagner paramilitary group, according to France&#8217;s agency for monitoring foreign digital interference. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":149418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}