#27. Clare Daly: “They called me a Russian propagandist – for telling the truth”

Video published: June 28, 2025

Clare Daly is an Irish politician and former Member of the European Parliament. She was a member of Independents 4 Change, affiliated with The Left group. Since 2024, she has been actively involved in Irish politics. Andrew Lowenthal is an independent writer, researcher, and digital-rights specialist focused on digital authoritarianism, misinformation, and civil liberties. He co‑founded and led the Asia‑Pacific nonprofit EngageMedia for nearly eighteen years, has been a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, and currently heads liber‑net, a digital civil‑liberties initiative.

‘The two reasons why I’m a Russian propagandist is I said two things:
1: that the war in Ukraine was a NATO proxy war;
2: that the people of Europe were suffering more than the Russian economy from the sanctions that Europe had imposed on Russia’

Andrew Lowenthal (at 28:29) is an independent writer, researcher, and digital-rights specialist focused on digital authoritarianism, misinformation, and civil liberties. He co‑founded and led the Asia‑Pacific non-profit EngageMedia for nearly eighteen years, has been a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, and currently heads liber‑net, a digital civil‑liberties initiative.

The video starts at 4:11 minutes with Clare Daly.