Russia Secretly Worms Its Way Into America’s Conservative Media | Federal prosecutors say Russia paid an American media company to push pro-Kremlin messages from social media influencers
Russia Secretly Worms Its Way Into America’s Conservative Media | Federal prosecutors say Russia paid an American media company to push pro-Kremlin messages from social media influencers
Federal prosecutors say Russia paid an American media company to push pro-Kremlin messages from social media influencers including Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin.
"secretly"? lol, cmon
222Anybody paying attention to how weird GOP media has been becoming for over a decade has been speculating in this direction. It's good that the DOJ has finally done something. And lol, tenet media has folded.
96This story was in The New York Times. During 2016 election The New York Times published thousands of stories about Clinton email/Benghazi, not one on Trumps lifelong ties to NY/Russian mob. As if The New York Times wasn't in a particularly knowledgeable position to report on 70 years of NYC construction & mob history. All the money in my pocket says The Paper of Record has been taking Russian money for decades.
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"Secretly"
This is the dead giveaway that NYT does not give a SHIT about all the fucked up pro-Trump shit they've pulled. Not even a little.
This is why I have zero problems when conservatives want to shit on it. "Yeah!" I say. Even though yeah usually they have something good there. Liberal media - yeah right. Fuck.
30I’m so glad this was top comment.
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75Yeah secretly my ass, this shit has been so obvious for years now
24Then why didn't you fucking tell us you knew Tenet and Poole were shopping millions of dollars of propaganda?? Why the fuck didn't you tell us???
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Tucker reports his shock at the current turn of events from his summer home in St. Petersburg Florida. 😉😉
66"Secretly" lmao
Come on now. Worst kept secret in politics.
63Secretly?
46Secretly?! 🤣👌🏼
39Worst kept secret ever.
37Secretly?
Shit, I'm from the UK and I don't know a single person here that doesn't already know that the Conservatives in the US are infested with russian mouth pieces.
Horribly kept secret if you can even call it one.
34Companies should be dissolved. Men should go to prison. This is tantamount to treason
31I think we should imprison the women involved as well
11You'll get a bunch of headline gore followed by a DOJ that shelves this all as "unprosecutable".
In five years, Tim Poole will have a show on CNN where guest Jon Stewart recalls that he got caught taking Russian money. And we'll all get a laugh about how he did this with Crossfire to the same effect.
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‘an American media company’
Fucking who? Why this protection through obfuscation. Ugh
31They do in the article. It's Tenet, Dave Rubin, Dim Fool, and a third person are also named.
22I’m just frustrated they use this technique to drag people into the article. Maybe I just wanna see the company and if I’d heard of it before.
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It's in the indictment: Tenet Media
20The consensus (in most press) is that it's Tim Poole's company.
He's even made a statement about it. So it seems like a solid guess.
11We have implemented this new thing called clickbaiting. How do you like it so far?
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"secretly worms" is a pretty good way to describe Tucker Carlson, actually
28secretly
Man, everybody knows T-cucks is just a pile of worms in a suit. Worst-kept secret in media. IIRC, he had to admit it in court—in connection with that leaked texts scandal.
0What scandal?
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It’s not a fucking secret. Russia has been fucking with America for like 70 years.
26Secretly my ass. Anyone with a brain can see the same thing happening on Facebook, popular podcasts, and YouTube as what we see Lemmy from HB and ml.
26This reads like a Baptist minister discovering a boyfriend his daughter's room, and then losing his shit like the boyfriend hadn't been invited in. "How could you dupe my sweet, innocent political party with your seductive money and influence!"
25Hot off the derp files.
No shit.
Fox News— Tucker Carlson, Shawn Hannity, Stepford Nazi edition wife Laura Ingraham and now Jesse Watters have been in the bag forever.
Rupert Murdoch has been licking Pootie’s sack and trying to bring down democracy.
25"worms it's way into"? Boy, you're late, that worming has been done ages ago. It laid its eggs, and they did hatch already.
25In case you missed the little summary above: Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin are the big ones.
And if you've never heard of them, your average Trump voter has.
24to be clear, these are the just the end points of the money, lauren chen and her husband were the ones actually funneling the money into this corp and to these people. (and the two indicted russians obviously)
Her and her husband also knew about it being from russia, so they're likely getting fucked over by the fed soon for this one.
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I would be surprised if there weren’t well placed Russian influence in most conservative media in the United States.
17Bingo. People keep saying how obvious because views aligned 100% with Russia (which, randomly, is like lottery odds). I have conservative friends who believe all that shit and they don't follow any of these clowns. The amount of times they've regurgitated Russian propaganda to me verbatim is hard to comprehend, and I've been shouting this from the rooftops for the better part of 2 years. It was just so damn obvious. People who have never given a thought to news outside of the US all the sudden telling me about Nazis in Ukraine was just a little too on the nose.
I'd bet my savings account this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Unsurprising news from anyone with half a brain cell...
14Tenet Media
14Tim Pool! I once knew a guy who thought everything he said was amazing
12Tim Pool really recently said that he supports the death penalty for treason...
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Now do Congress
13Open secret
12I'll just leave this here.
11Fox News curiously silent.
9Fox "news"
They won't say shit, get ready for some bullshit from them like finally finding Hunter's laptop or some bullshit about Walz or Kamala.
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You guys!!! Why didn't anyone tell me about the secret? I had NO idea and now I look like an ASSHOLE!
8Now do Tucker
7secretly
7What ever happened to the NRA after that russian spy thing?
7IIRC, they declared bankruptcy then went back to business as usual.
5Probably nothing
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The fucking Muscovites influenced and supported their Orange Sock Puppet since the 2016 election.
4A lot longer than that.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/
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Secretly doing a illegitimate amount of lifting I that headline.
4Putinist Russia and the Western far-right are two cheeks of the same arse. Ultra-conservative, ultra-nationalist, hellbent on stirring up culture wars and spreading false information.
1Are they gonna make these same accusations on companies and people working on behalf of Israel?
0weird whattaboutism. bit beyond a caasual "accusation", they've been officially indicted. I am sure that if Israeli propagandists had been indicted, you would hear about it.
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hey! just like the us have been doing to other countries for decades!
ironic if true.
0Weird downvotes. Truth hurts I suppose.
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I thought it was a Canadian company that then contracted out right-wing American personalities.
I remember thinking when I heard it that it's probably the smartest thing Russia could have done; sneak in the back door by using the Canadians as a go-between.
-1We've had a big problem with foreign agents in Canada. The federal government keeps downplaying it but several states appear to be acting with near impunity in Canada.
2the guy behind it "eduard" who isn't real and doesnt exist was supposedly the canada guy.
It's possible lauren is based in canada, but the company was listed in kentucky? i think. The money was funneled in from various different shell corps.
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Now report on Iran, Qatar, and China worming their way into leftist media and college campuses.
-11Qatar
Biggest foreign sponsor of CNN incidentally.
2Social media is becoming a battleground for cultural warfare, divide and conquer in the information age
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