Russia Today has extended an invitation to American TV host Tucker Carlson to “ask additional questions” on Russian television after Fox News announced it was splitting with him on Monday.

“Hey @TuckerCarlson, you can always ask @RT_com more questions,” Russia Today tweeted.

The post cannot be seen in the member states of the European Union, as Twitter followed the EU’s decision, made on February 27 last year, a few days after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to block Sputnik and Russia Today. , who accuse them of spreading Moscow propaganda and disinformation.

But a screenshot of the post, visible in the US and other countries, was shared on his Twitter page by an American journalist, one of the most famous Western commentators on Russian media, along with BBC correspondent Francis Scarr.

Fox News announced Monday that it was amicably parting ways with Carlson, its most popular anchor, and thanked him for his work at the network since 2019, when he began working with the conservative broadcaster.

Although he did not give reasons for the decision, which surprised the US media, it came after Fox News last week agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems, an electronic voting machine company that broadcasters accused of falsifying presidential ballots. elections of 2020. election.

Tucker Carlson was one of the Fox News anchors who spread unsubstantiated allegations against Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, another electronic voting machine company.

Carlson, a favorite of the Russian state media

Both before and after the start of the war in Ukraine, Carlson was repeatedly accused of spreading Moscow propaganda, and the comments he made during his show were widely picked up and translated by Russian state media.

Carlson was accused of pushing many of the Kremlin’s propaganda lines before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a “special military operation” on February 24, questioning, among other things, why the United States should hold Ukraine over Russia, “which is a much bigger country.” “.

He even declared that he “stands on the side of Russia” in the dispute with Ukraine, the broadcast of individual fragments of his monologues has become common for Russian television since March of last year.

Among other things, he later questioned the US government’s military aid to Ukraine, accused Kyiv of persecuting the country’s Christians, compared President Volodymyr Zelensky to a strip club manager, and addressed the issue of allegedly American biological laboratories in Ukraine.

Valeriu Pasha, an expert on disinformation at the anti-corruption organization WatchDog.MD, said in an interview with Insider journalists last April that the American TV presenter will be banned from Respul. Moldova because of his pro-Russian comments.

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