It's Russia! Russia! Russia! Again

 

A Russo-MAGA propaganda outlet (one that isn't part of the corporate Republican-wired media) says "Do svidaniya, suckers!":

Tenet Media is no more.

The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being funded by Russian state-controlled media, according to Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.

The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of “a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.

The company’s founders, Canadian Lauren Chen and her husband, Liam Donovon, have not yet commented publicly on the scandal. The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, Blaze Media, which has already wiped episodes of her podcast from Spotify and deleted her contributor page from its website. Blaze Media CEO Tyler Cardon told Semafor that the conservative anchor had been “terminated.”

The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.  [snip]

Tenet is just the latest flavor of Russian-backed misinformation campaign that has plagued American politics, but it is a sign of just how sizable the foreign country’s budget is in 2024 for influencing the November election.

"Victim," no.  At best, useful idiot.  At worst, unregistered foreign agent.  

Democrats in general and the Harris-Walz campaign in particular are running against not only the Malignant Loser's legacy disinformation structure, but also the "sanewashing" Republican- wired media and foreign influencers that are mainly Russia- or China-backed.  

All these years in, it's still good to remember a "tenet" to count on:  if a media outlet makes the Malignant Loser look other than the ignorant, deranged, treasonous, narcissistic, misogynistic, raping, felonious con artist that he is, it's lying to you and counting on you being a sucker.  Oh, and it also might be part of the Russian (or Chinese) disinformation and propaganda ecosystems.

(Photo illustration:  Jessica Tanney/ Brandeis Now)