{
  "lastUpdated": "2026-06-02T13:00:00Z",
  "schemaNote": "Hand-curated watchlist of entities under EU restrictive-measures or US OFAC SDN designation that we have evidence are present on Odysee. Each entry: entity name, sanctioning instrument(s), Odysee handle(s) observed, total flagged items at last scan, total LBC, primary article on this site, public reference.",
  "entities": [
    {
      "name": "RT (Russia Today)",
      "shortDesc": "Russian state broadcaster",
      "designations": [
        {
          "instrument": "EU Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/351",
          "date": "2022-03-01",
          "scope": "Broadcast/distribution prohibition in the Union",
          "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32022D0351"
        }
      ],
      "odyseeHandles": ["@RT"],
      "flaggedItems": 38,
      "totalLBC": 51700,
      "article": "/articles/rt-on-odysee",
      "notes": "Channel created on Odysee 2022-02-28, four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine — the same week YouTube, Meta, the App Store, and Google were all cutting RT off. The top item on the channel is a 24/7 livestream with 50,316 LBC staked on it."
    },
    {
      "name": "SouthFront",
      "shortDesc": "Russian military-disinformation outlet",
      "designations": [
        {
          "instrument": "EU Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/350",
          "date": "2022-02-28",
          "scope": "Broadcast/distribution prohibition in the Union",
          "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32022D0350"
        },
        {
          "instrument": "US OFAC SDN list (Executive Order 14024)",
          "date": "2022-04-21",
          "scope": "US asset blocking; secondary-sanctions exposure for facilitators",
          "url": "https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/"
        }
      ],
      "odyseeHandles": ["@SouthFront"],
      "flaggedItems": 221,
      "totalLBC": 18146,
      "article": "/articles/southfront-russian-disinfo",
      "notes": "Top items by accumulated tip activity are pure Russian war-propaganda titles ('Russia's Surge In Military Production', 'Moscow Crushes Zelensky's Truce Theater'). Distribution-prohibition in EU + OFAC asset-blocking in US."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hezbollah (Islamic Resistance / Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance)",
      "shortDesc": "Designated terrorism organisation (EU, UK, DE, IE, US, others)",
      "designations": [
        {
          "instrument": "EU Council Decision 2024/1136 (consolidating the 2002 framework)",
          "date": "2024-04-22",
          "scope": "EU terrorism listing; material-support prohibition under Council Regulation (EU) 2580/2001",
          "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024D1136"
        },
        {
          "instrument": "UK Terrorism Act 2000 §3 (proscribed organisation)",
          "date": "2019-02-28",
          "scope": "Glorification + material support criminal offences under Sections 12, 17, 19",
          "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/3"
        },
        {
          "instrument": "Germany BMI ban (April 2020)",
          "date": "2020-04-30",
          "scope": "Hezbollah activities banned in Germany; §86a StGB criminalises propaganda materials"
        }
      ],
      "odyseeHandles": ["@Alchimie"],
      "flaggedItems": 132,
      "totalLBC": 50,
      "article": "/articles/alchimie-hezbollah-network",
      "notes": "Single French-language Odysee channel posting verbatim Hezbollah Resistance media (Mujahideen communiqués, Merkava tank destruction reports, Nasrallah martyrdom announcements). 128 of the 132 items surfaced in the 2026-06-02 deep-sweep scan."
    }
  ]
}