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.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    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.

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      12 days ago

      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.

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    12 days ago

    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?

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        12 days 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.