Soft power, hard cash: How the UK secretly buys influencers
Tue 9:05 am +00:00, 22 Jul 2025 1The British Foreign Office is at it again: ‘strengthening democracy’ and ‘fighting misinformation’ by paying YouTube personalities RT WORLD NEWS By Timur Tarkhanov, journalist and media executive Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy [left] © Ian Forsyth/Getty Images) There is something profoundly grotesque about a government that funds “freedom campaigns” through secret payments …












