‘Not a foreign agent yet’: Independent news outlet The Bell comes under attack three times in three weeks

On the morning of September 2, The Bell's newsletter subscribers received an email that urged them to boycott the upcoming State Duma election. The publication quickly apologized, saying the mailout came from hackers. This apparent hack is the third attack on the news site in the last three weeks. On August 11, one of The Bell's journalists reported that someone tried to hack her phone. And on August 25, its website went down due to an "external attack." The story of the most recent hack was picked up by the state-owned television channel Russia 24, which aired a segment where "experts" speculated that The Bell was actually behind the provocative mailout. The segment also underscored the fact that "The Bell isn't on the list of 'foreign agents' yet." Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/09/03/not-a-foreign-agent-yet