rt[.]com

State-media outlet. Part of the state media network. We first observed it cited in a chatbot answer on 13 Sep 2026.

State mediafirst cited Sep activeIffy · low-credibility · VL

answers cited it

once per answer, however many links

claims reached

0 it is recorded as carrying

source-to-answer lines

carried it and was cited on it

critical incidents

cited while repeating a claim

assistants cited it

Claude, Grok, Perplexity

Cited on claims it did not carry

Claims where assistants cited this domain although it is not recorded as having published them
Твердження	Вердикт	Citations	Цитували
“Ukraine manpower exhaustion claim”	FALSE	12	3 assistants
“The West is forcing Armenia to sever ties with Russia”	FALSE	2	3 assistants
“Kyiv falsifies Bucha victim list”	FALSE	9	3 assistants
“Ukraine bans Orthodox Church activities”	FALSE	1	3 assistants
“Russophobia as a 19th-century British invention”	FALSE	12	3 assistants
“EU sanctions grounded firefighting helicopters causing Iberian wildfires”	FALSE	33	3 assistants
“EU "loses" €65–135M/day from sanctions (fabricated counter)”	FALSE	3	3 assistants
“Ukraine energy collapse blame”	FALSE	1	3 assistants
“Merz serves military-industrial complex”	FALSE	2	3 assistants
“EU plans cyberattacks on Russian elections”	FALSE	1	3 assistants
“Western interference in Russian elections”	FALSE	5	3 assistants
“Germany blames Russia for Leipzig Airport attack”	FALSE	5	3 assistants
“Western preparation for military confrontation”	FALSE	1	3 assistants
“Zelenskyy rejected peace plan for war motives”	FALSE	1	3 assistants
“Europe as a warmongering force”	FALSE	1	3 assistants
“Poland and Romania halt Ukrainian grain transit”	MISLEADING	6	3 assistants
“UK and EU media sabotage peace efforts”	FALSE	1	3 assistants

These are candidates for the claim card: the domain reached an answer about a claim we have not recorded it as distributing.

Cited by assistant and question type

Citation counts per assistant and question type. Counts only: a share would need a denominator that lives in the metrics store.
Чат-бот	Total
Perplexity	43
Grok	28
Claude	25

Counts of answers, one per answer per domain. Persona columns are never summed into a single figure, and a citation count is not a rate: the denominator lives in the metrics store.

By market

Where the citations happened. Counts, never merged into one figure.

Citations of this domain per market
Market	Citations	Share of this domain's citations
ES	16
UK	12
US	12
DE	9
DK	9
PL	8
UA	7
CZ	6
FR	6
NL	3
AT	3
TR	2
IT	1

Over time

Citations per run. Search-grounded assistants reshuffle their sources between runs for reasons unrelated to anything we do, so a movement here is not on its own a finding.

Citations of this domain per run
Run	Citations
c16_2026-09-15	33
a5_2026-10-06	17
a7_2026-10-07	9
C14_us_en_2026-09-13	6
c14_2026-09-24	6
f3_2026-10-21	6
d8_2026-10-15	5
e1_2026-09-17	3
C6_us_en_2026-09-13	2
a2_2026-09-29	2
d2_2026-10-08	2
C11_us_en_2026-09-13	1
n1_2026-09-22	1
n2_2026-09-24	1
d10_2026-10-16	1
f4_2026-10-22	1

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