Clickbait and Skripal jokes: how Russia’s RT is growing online

Russia’s state-controlled Russia Today (RT) television broadcast vans are seen parked in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin next to Red Square in Moscow.The poisoning of the former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury is unlikely material for a humorous video.“It’s been a huge novi-cockup,” jokes the presenter Polly Boiko in a plummy British accent, going on to suggest Skripal’s pets – which were locked in his home without