"But former advisers to Gabbard suggest that her views on Russia and its polarizing leader, Vladimir Putin, have been shaped not by some covert intelligence recruitment as far as they know -- but instead by her unorthodox media consumption habits.

Three former aides said Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, regularly read and shared articles from the Russian news site RT -- formerly known as Russia Today -- which the U.S. intelligence community characterized in 2017 as "the Kremlin's principal international propaganda outlet."

While it was not clear to those former staffers whether or when she stopped frequenting the site, one former aide said Gabbard continued to circulate articles from RT "long after" she was advised that the outlet was not a credible source of information."

The rest of the article and a few other articles should give you a good perspective.

abcnews.go.com - Gabbards views russia shaped part kremlin propaganda outlet

I once enjoyed watching RT, because I got to see films of parts of Russia that I'd never seen - like the Kamchatka Peninsula. Then at one point it became clear there was a narrative that contradicted what I was hearing from the free press. Disturbed, I researched, found RT was an untrustworthy source, and even though I was watching mostly films of Russian land, etc., dropped them.