Benny Johnson and “Culture War Podcast” host Tim Pool, who have millions of followers on YouTube and other platforms, are linked to the conspiracy.
A state-controlled Russian media outlet provided nearly $10 million to “covertly finance and direct” videos produced by a Tennessee-based online content company, the Justice Department alleged, identified by media reports as U.S. right-wing social media network Tenet Media.) charged two employees of RT, formerly known as Russia Today, of using “fake personas and shell companies” to carry out a “secret influence campaign in the United States.
“Many of the videos posted by U.S. Company-1 contain commentary on events and issues in the U.S., such as immigration, inflation, and other topics related to domestic and foreign policy,” the DOJ said. “While the views expressed in the videos are not uniform, most are directed to the publicly stated goals of the Government of Russia and RT -- to amplify domestic divisions in the United States.
RT orchestrated a “massive scheme to influence the American public by secretly planting and financing a content creation company on U.S. soil,” added U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York. According to Williams, the “victims of the scheme were the American people, who received Russian messaging without knowing it.”
Tenet Media “never disclosed to its viewers that it was funded and directed by RT,” according to the DOJ, nor did the company or its two founders register with the Attorney General “as an agent of a foreign principal.” “If they kick us out completely, how will they conduct the next elections? They don’t have any other strategies except to scaremonger about the almighty RT,” Simonyan wrote in a post on Telegram, per the article.
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