An employee of New Zealand's public broadcaster RNZ has been adding Russian propaganda messages to the news for a year

He edited the news sent by news agencies, adding Russian narratives about Ukraine.

This is evidenced by archival copies of these articles.

The RNZ website published articles about the "persecution of Russian speakers in Ukraine," the "coup d'état on the Maidan," and "Ukrainian neo-Nazism." No one noticed this for a year

However, on June 8, Twitter users noticed it in a Reuters article published on RNZ. It stated that the Russian leadership had started using the word "war." The public broadcaster added a recap of the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war that mirrored Russian propaganda.

He was then suspended from his job. The RNZ is conducting an internal investigation and is looking for articles with edits that have not yet been discovered.

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