[7][8] Naouai performed the audiobook The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in English for Russian company ArdisBook.

[12] CNN reported that, according to her LinkedIn page, Naouai was a correspondent for RT from 2006, and a long-term friend of its Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan.

"[citation needed] In an exchange with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Naouai said RT's job was “closing the holes” in mainstream Western channels’ coverage, and said that the Kremlin funded it because Vladimir Putin “wants … Russia to be respected, mutually respected on an equal playing base, and he wants dialogue to prevail.”[14] In 2017, she told Christian Science Monitor, "I don't think I'm working for an adversary, despite some elements in the American media-political establishment trying to position RT as such...

In fact, I think my work, and RT overall, helps improve public discourse in the US by completing the picture of current affairs and introducing diverse voices into the debate at large.

For example, Soapbox's "About" section now read: "'Soapbox' is a political opinion brand of Maffick, which is owned and operated by Anissa Naouai and Ruptly GmbH, a subsidiary of RT".

[21] The company sued Facebook in the Northern District of California in July 2020 for defamation and monetary damages from lost internet traffic.