How Russia Today Infiltrated Right Wing Media

RT, or Russia Today is Russia's official propaganda and disinformation platform. Multiple countries stopped carrying the RT news channel after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, so Russia needed to find another way to disseminate state-sponsored propaganda. A Thread 🧵

Tenet Media ( "U.S. Company-1" in the indictment) is a right-leaning content creation firm focusing on social media. This company allegedly accepted $9.7 million in funding from RT to parrot Russian talking points as directed by Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanassvia.

The statement from Tim Pool is here:

The Justice Department indictment is here:

If you account certain russian propaganda spreaders like Alex Jones, for instance, or Ron Paul. This situation is developing for more than a decade.

Thank you Ryan! I worked in counter intelligence for an alphabet agency for almost two decades, it was clear as day to see exactly what was going on and who was involved. Please keep up the good work. Also Jackson Hinkle is next

I know the owners of Tenet are definitely guilty. I know ‘commentator 3’ is also implicated directly. Who’s commentator 3? So Lauren Chen & husband is directly implicated, and this commentator 3 character. The rest were used to gain traffic to the channel. They were pawns.

I think it’s possible that commentator three is Tim Poole because he has about 1.3 million subscribers and I believe the indictment mentioned that particular person has that number of subscribers.

Russia, Russia, Russia! RT which is banned from everyone and their mother had changed the outcome of the war and what have you with two people and 10 million dollars. Right? The allegation or ,even if proven true, fact of them trying to buy some media attention doesn’t make the information they were moving disinformation, neither the information pushed by likes of Macbeth true. Will see how this unfolds.