It stinks, massively.

If there's any truth to these allegations, it's still being used and astroturfs in a big way.

I've already seen tons of bots spreading this, and Midas Touch or whatever is one of the big pushers. This is the government, working with their media and other organization counterparts to smear critics of the state.

I'm super pissed for Matt Christiansen, too. He just can't seem to catch a fucking break. May have finally received his hit piece, though, so I suppose he's got that going for him.

I don't think Tenet is some massive Russian op, but it's certainly a mess. Weirdly managed, pretty much no interaction between the various parties involved, no cross promotion, not much advertisement. I don't really get the point of Tenet and, as mentioned, it seems Matt got kind of stuck in the middle of a weird situation, without much gain.

EDIT: To expand on how this is being used, it's the usual smear; put out bad sounding half truths (or less), coordinate with friendly media to do literal (but, It's Good When We Do It) misinformation. The game here is, the official allegation sounds like the creators didn't even know that Russians (CIA agents?) may have been in the room with their bosses. Also, sort of a weird thing, where no one was being told to say anything specific...not sure how you push 'pro Russian propaganda' with no communication. Anyway, then they send their media goons to send their bot goons in to lie on their behalf; calling the creators who, even in the worst case scenario, didn't even know anything, traitors and Russian shills.