Dave Rubin, a photo used to represent "Eduard Grigoriann," and Tim Pool Getty, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Tim Pool How easy is it to fool high-profile right-wing media personalities into joining an alleged Russian influence operation? Around February last year, “Founder-1,” which appears to be Chen, “solicited Commentator-1 and Commentator-2 to perform work on …
A conservative pundit Thursday laid into the "useful idiots" who prosecutors contend unwittingly accepted millions of dollars from Russian operatives to spread secret propaganda for a hostile foreign power. Jim Geraghty, senior political correspondent for the conservative magazine National Review, lacerated conservative commentators Tim Pool and Benny Johnson for their apparent inclusion in Attorney General Merrick Garland's indictment of two …
The Department of Justice indicted two employees of the state-backed Russian media company RT on Wednesday, saying they funded and directed the coverage of a U.S. conservative media outlet in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. However, it is identified as a Tennessee-based corporation hosting six commentators that describes itself as a “network of heterodox commentators that focus on …
CNN — The unnamed Tennessee-based company that the Justice Department alleges was being funded by Russian operatives working as part of a Kremlin-orchestrated influence operation targeting the 2024 US election is Tenet Media, which is linked to right-wing commentators with millions of subscribers on YouTube and other social media platforms, according to a US official briefed on the matter. The …