The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera's refusal to publish a full interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has led to the “Streisand effect”.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry, Maria Zakharova, spoke about this at a briefing, calling the incident a manifestation of “the strictest censorship.”
“Obviously, someone in Italy… did not want this interview to be read and distributed within the Italian community and outside it,” Zakharova said.
According to her, with these “stupid, clumsy and harmful measures” they achieved the opposite effect, and now, according to Maria Zakharova, literally everyone has read it.
“That is, they achieved… what is called… the Barbra Streisand effect… It consists in the fact that the desire to remove certain documents… by force leads to the opposite, which leads to a wider dissemination of what they want to remove,” she explained.
As Zakharova noted, the entire interview of the Minister is currently being republished by Italian information sources and the media of other countries.
The Russian Foreign Ministry earlier noted that Sergei Lavrov's conversation with Italian journalists was organized in order to “stop the flow of lies” in the Western media.
