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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 mediaaccording 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.

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[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 208 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Where's all the "there's no Russian interference" people at now? Are they doing the mental gymnastics on how they're going to flip this as being the Democrats fault?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 82 points 1 month ago

Waiting for the hydra's next head to pop up and give them their talking points.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are not getting paid anymore...

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

That we know of. This was an extremely simple and silly scheme that was exposed. It wasn't even the first. And it won't be the last. Plus there will be a few slightly more competent ones that we may never know about in our lifetime.

[–] eRac@lemmings.world 17 points 1 month ago

Babylon Bee promptly started posting 'satire' pieces about Clinton whining about Russian interference the moment the news dropped. The right's response appears to be to connect this to the prior cases, which they already got people to believe a false narrative about.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

These people were too busy creating some bullshit called Trump derangement syndrome and accusing people of having it. They don't live in reality and want to drag us down with them.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

But...but..Putin openly endorsed Komrade Kamala...very strongly. Many say Sir, it is the strongest endorsement a communist has ever made.

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No they are saying straight out that on fox news that it's good if Russians help the Republicans win

[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

Wow, I'll be honest, didn't see that one coming. I figured they'd spin it some more.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 142 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wow. I gotta admit I’m a bit surprised the parties involved killed the operation so quickly. This wasn’t “the FBI shut us down”. This was “lol we got caught red-handed, quick, pull our money out asap”.

It’s less of a smoking gun, and more like finding someone holding a smoking gun in front of a shot person, and they see you seeing them, so they quickly yeet the gun into the river and run away. Like… bro: we see you, and just watched you do that. The context is utterly damning.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're not responding. Quick! Google time in Moscow for the imaginary man in Paris. That's some stooges level of competence.

Insult to injury Tim's father regularly contradicts and pushes back against the narrative his son peddles in his own way. But in the wake of this he even called into the majority report. And had a discussion with Emma Matt and the others.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What? Tim who? And the rest... I seem to be missing some serious context here.

Edit: I have educated myself.

The accused will claim McCarthyism, even though this time there's actual proof of connections, unlike in the 50s.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 110 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Make sure everyone knows Blaze Media was ‘duped’ as well

The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, Blaze Media,

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

And on the odd chance they aren't a Russian propaganda machine, then at best they can't seem to distinguish their own work from Russian propaganda

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago

Hopefully means no more Glenn Beck or Dave rubin

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

How horrible for those poor, alt-right wing influencers. Imagine finding out that Putin has been paying you all along when you thought you were spewing Russia's talking points for American scum bags.

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Thanks to cognitive dissonance they are doing fine.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn't there some kind of media or internet crash in Russia during the 2016 or 2020 election? I was on reddit then, and remember there being 2 or 3 days of a solid 99% reduction in pro-Trump posts cuz all the bots suddenly stopped.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, the Internet connection between Russia and everywhere else went down, and the number of right-wing trolls plummeted.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Kinda wish that connection was severed entirely.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 31 points 1 month ago
[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago

This is an outright attack on democracy - and something that a majority of conservatives are in support of. It's very shameful. I'm very grateful that schemes such as this have been exposed.

Good riddance, Tenet Media - and also Blaze Media. Good riddance.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

"Neten Media" being founded with the same headquarters address and many of the same employees (purely by happenstance, of course) in 3... 2... 1....

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They should just outsource this work to whoever is doing it for Israel. Obviously better at their jobs.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 1 month ago

It's called AIPAC.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suspect $10mil. is what they were able to track but isn't it just a pocket change in the american media world, especially with such a mission?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 12 points 1 month ago

Politicians can be bought for embarrassingly low amounts, I dont see "media personalities" as generally being any better.

Those rubles and bots are going to go somewhere else soon enough. Id wager some middeling podcaster is about to get a suspicious boost in audience and funding.

[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But how is little Timmy going to pay for his new skate park and music videos now?!

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He was a sk8r boy, she said see ya l8r boy (he was a threat to dem•oc•ra•cy)

[–] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Great song by Avril Lavignova

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Beanie fund done dried up.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I think the owners were indicted and this is what usually happens.

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Wait, that's a Canadian entity, interesting.