Russia Secretly Worms Its Way Into America’s Conservative Media
www.nytimes.com
Federal prosecutors say Russia paid an American media company to push pro-Kremlin messages from social media influencers including Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin.
  • vegeta@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 months ago

    Tucker reports his shock at the current turn of events from his summer home in St. Petersburg Florida. 😉😉

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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      6 months ago

      Anybody paying attention to how weird GOP media has been becoming for over a decade has been speculating in this direction. It’s good that the DOJ has finally done something. And lol, tenet media has folded.

      • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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        6 months ago

        This story was in The New York Times. During 2016 election The New York Times published thousands of stories about Clinton email/Benghazi, not one on Trumps lifelong ties to NY/Russian mob. As if The New York Times wasn’t in a particularly knowledgeable position to report on 70 years of NYC construction & mob history. All the money in my pocket says The Paper of Record has been taking Russian money for decades.

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Yup! Remember Romney saying that Russia was our geopolitical enemy and Obama being the one who called that ridiculous? Ever since then the Republicans have had an absurd love affair with Putin.

        • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
          1·
          6 months ago

          To be fair, there was an honest gambit there with Our Pal Russia, the same one that was tried with China. It didn’t work but it seemed like a fair thing to try, especially considering the economic constraints of the alternative.

          • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            Oh yeah, at the time Obama was right to try to repair relations with Russia. They’ve simply grown worse as they figured out how to poke at the world via information warfare.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      “Secretly”

      This is the dead giveaway that NYT does not give a SHIT about all the fucked up pro-Trump shit they’ve pulled. Not even a little.

      This is why I have zero problems when conservatives want to shit on it. “Yeah!” I say. Even though yeah usually they have something good there. Liberal media - yeah right. Fuck.

      • Vaquedoso@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I agree with you, but let’s try to not treat massive organizations as a single being. I’m sure even there some people were not ok with how pervasive Russian talking points were there. But then again, maybe I’m being naive.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I thought it was a Canadian company that then contracted out right-wing American personalities.

    I remember thinking when I heard it that it’s probably the smartest thing Russia could have done; sneak in the back door by using the Canadians as a go-between.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      We’ve had a big problem with foreign agents in Canada. The federal government keeps downplaying it but several states appear to be acting with near impunity in Canada.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 months ago

      the guy behind it “eduard” who isn’t real and doesnt exist was supposedly the canada guy.

      It’s possible lauren is based in canada, but the company was listed in kentucky? i think. The money was funneled in from various different shell corps.

      • TheFonz@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Lauren and her partner are Canadians (Persons 1&2 in the indictment). They set up a company in Tennessee to manage production and pay the ‘talent’.

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          6 months ago

          yeah, i didn’t and still don’t know much about them personally, but i still believe unless i’m just pulling this part out of my ass that the fake person was supposed to be based either, somewhere in europe or possibly canada?

          Regardless, they’re still worse than the two russians that were indicted lol.

          • TheFonz@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            Yes. “Grigorian” was the fictitious investor they set up to act as the funding source.

            However, in the communication between Chen and her husband they were able to figure out whoever that they were based out of Russia. In one of the messages between the they are found looking up Moscow time to check why Grigorian hadn’t replied to a communication.

            It’s crazy.