"Is RT banned?" depends entirely on where you're standing. In the European Union: yes, flat-out — since March 2, 2022, RT can't broadcast, stream or distribute content in the bloc, by law. In the UK: effectively yes — the regulator Ofcom revoked RT's broadcast licence after opening a stack of impartiality investigations, and sanctions shut its bureau. In the United States: no, and the difference is worth understanding. * First, what RT actually is. Russia Today is run by ANO TV-Novosti and funded by the Russian state — this isn't a slur, it's the org chart. Its editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, is personally under Western sanctions. When we file RT pieces on this site, that's the label we file them under: state media, in the direct sense. * Now the American answer. The First Amendment makes an EU-style content ban legally radioactive, so the US squeezed the plumbing instead: sanctions on RT and its executives, satellite and cable carriers dropping RT America (which shut down), YouTube deleting its channels, Meta banning it from Facebook and Instagram, and the FBI publicly labeling it a tool of Russian government propaganda. RT's website is still reachable from an American browser. It's not banned — it's been unplugged from every amplifier that mattered. * RT, for its part, publishes running tallies of Western restrictions as proof the West fears free speech. That's a framing choice too, and a revealing one: 'banned' is RT's favorite word about itself, because 'sanctioned state broadcaster' converts worse. * Should you ever read it? Carefully, yes — the same way you'd read any government's press releases. RT is useful precisely because it is owned: it shows you, in real time, what the Kremlin wants foregrounded and what it wants to vanish. We do that reading regularly on this site so you can watch the technique. Just never confuse access with innocence — in the EU you legally can't read it; in the US you can, and you should know exactly what you're holding when you do.