RT editor disputes US hacking report's implication of Russian news channel

A US intelligence report claimed RT’s ‘negative’ election coverage of Hillary Clinton was deliberate, which Margarita Simonyan called a ‘sad commentary’The editor-in-chief of RT, the Russian government-backed 24-hour news network, has hit back at claims in a US intelligence report that the news organization engaged in a longstanding effort “aimed at undermining US viewers’ trust in US democratic procedures”.Related: Russia slates 'baseless, amateur