Journalist Robert Silverman and I discuss the recent Russian scheme to funnel large piles of cash to Right Wing influencers, and the massive amounts of domestic money they receive for their bad takes.
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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-indicted-covertly-funding-and-directing-us-company-published-thousands
Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/09/05/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool/
What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Said in Those Tenet Media Videos
https://www.wired.com/story/influencers-tenet-benny-johnson-tim-pool-russia-propaganda-videos/
How ‘Coward and Phony’ Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-coward-and-phony-tim-pool-became-one-of-the-biggest-political-youtubers-on-the-planet
Tim Pool Caught COVID—and Joe Rogan Offered to Pay His Medical Bills
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pool-caught-covid-and-joe-rogan-offered-to-pay-his-medical-bills
Tim Pool’s News Site Plagiarized the Mainstream Media He Claims to Hate
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pools-news-site-timcastcom-plagiarized-from-the-mainstream-media-he-claims-to-hate
The Long, Lucrative Right-wing Grift Is Blowing Up in the World's Face
https://www.splinter.com/the-long-lucrative-right-wing-grift-is-blowing-up-in-t-1793944216
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Episode 154 - Russian To Get That Bag w/Robert Silverman