https://kiwifarms.st/threads/tenet-media.199620/
There are other 'retards' pointing out the exact same thing that I am, please stop shooting the messenger. I do not agree with what the DOJ is doing at all, I think it's ridiculous, I'm just pointing out the legality and shadiness of it all. On a personal level I also hate glowies on any side of the aisle and always will.
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A little advice for anyone reading, if you ever find yourself pretending to be mad on the internet for the amusement of two-digit IQ boomers:
If you receive large influxes of cash and """"investment"""" for videos with specific political messaging, do your due diligence to make sure that it's not coming from a country that is currently under a fuckton of US sanctions.
If you discover that you are taking money from a foreign national or entity that is currently under US sanctions, wash your fucking penis money.
The Kiwifarms thread is worth a read despite the autistic sperging, they're predictably going into a lot of detail on this. The commentators are not looking good from it as I expected. If I ever got offered that much money for anything like this I would immediately ask first whether they have any kinds of ties with a government organisation or receive government money.
I've never once ran a background check or done any research whatsoever on any boss/client/customer or anything similar I've ever had. The whole "They should have researched this guy enough to know his identity was fake" is a bizarre cope and either retards with an axe to grind or literal bots/fedposters.
You just summed up why the thread was made after OP was blasted for being more retarded than usual in another thread related to this concept.
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/1994kJKyGO/x/c/4ZDuNLNqpMc
I'll tell you what's bizarre is you guys defending all of this or trying to brush it off after mocking the Dustborn devs for basically doing the exact same shit not even a few days ago and it's made me lose quite a lot of respect for people on this site who are normally reasonably balanced when it comes to calling out glowie ops.
I'm going to call out glowie stuff when I see it and I don't care how many downvotes it nets me.
As someone else mentioned in the other thread and you dodged answer, are you doing a full financial audit of every financial transaction in your life? Are you even doing that for major ones?
Would you like me to go into autistic detail about what I found out about steam and how it operates with a noob-tier platformer I uploaded once? Yes it's relevant, there's a lot of fakery and bot farms happening on that store, that place almost operates like reddit these days.
Also I didn't dodge the post, I hadn't gotten to it yet.
Maybe later but first I'd like to hear about how you autistically conducted a full financial audit of every retail job you've ever worked before accepting your paycheck. You know, to make sure you weren't accepting money from glowies.
He can't do that, because he IS accepting money from glowies.
Now this is why I'm getting angsty and think you're sperging, you know for a fact that I'm not talking about every single transaction or small transactions, Tenet was giving them hundreds of thousands and they didn't even question any of it. Don't misrepresent people, this isn't about small amounts, this is about one massive amount by a company.
Why not? The principle is the same, it's just a difference of degrees. You could be taking glowies' money for working the register at some deli that's really just a front for [insert choice of nefarious entity] and never know it if you didn't do your homework.
You are openly despised here.
Are you telling me if you got offered $700k+ for something that wouldn't even set off a single alarm bell to maybe investigate who the person is given the proxy war currently going on with Russia? This isn't $1000 or anything like that which is going to be chump change to a big organisation, it's a significant sum with inevitable strings attached.
There are probably about half a dozen proxy wars going on within the US currently, not least of which is the deep-state against their own citizens' constitutional right to freedoms. The Russians probably shouldn't even rank in the top 3 infiltration concerns of a new media company.
Yeah you're right, smart people should be more careful about letting their company be subverted, but " 'cuz Russia" isn't the smart reason why. And there's yet to be any evidence that the money actually changed anything about their reporting, money alone is not proof. It could turn out they were still skeptical enough about the funding that they refused any strings RT tried to attach and Tenet's own independent desire desire to be contrarians to the US gov's own propaganda was enough to warrant RT funding even without gaining the means to directly influence it.
I'm actually in a similar situation of being paid absurd amounts of money for essentially nothing. I'm working as a consultant currently for another company and being paid hundreds of dollars an hour to read powerpoint slides to a room full of bored office drones that have to be there. It's absolutely a rort and I'm being paid hand over fist, and I can't imagine how much the guys who run the "company" are charging them. It's a flash website that's run by 2 guys in different states that contract everything out.
That Russia is somehow involved has never, not literally once, even come close to crossing my mind.
If you think that's normal in any capacity you're all retards, I would never trust any of that unless I knew the money was coming from somewhere properly identifiable. We live in the day and age of proxy wars and glowies, you can never afford to be too careful or you'll get picked up as a glowie asset or pegged as one.
Depends on who I am and what "something" was.
If someone offered you $700k for something, yeah, you'd better be skeptical because you're not worth that much. But you aren't Dave Rubin or Tim Pool. Dave is delusional enough to think that he's worth that and Tim Pool, with his audience, almost certainly is. Are either of them worth $5m/year? I'd say probably not.
Of course, without editorial control, I don't see what someone would stand to gain from giving either one of them anything, but that's a whole different issue. And if it was just a honeypot to begin with, the "investors" don't need to gain anything, which makes the whole thing make a lot more sense.
As far as I can tell the indictment doesn't say the money was contingent on reporting a certain way.
The money allegedly was from someone from RT, under a fake identity posing as an independent publisher offering to bankroll their new start-up media project. Then separately two guys from RT also got employed as third party video editors after applying under fake identities and allegedly tried to influence the content from below the creators on the hierarchy.
Bear in mind these are allegations from the same intelligence community that fabricated Russian bed-piss stories from whole cloth and that is the most incriminating story they dare to imagine.
The only complaints I can see are that, one: they're allegedly pretty fuckin gullible by how basic these fake identities they believed were, but a lot of these guys already have a history of that. You practically have to be more dedicated than smart to be the willing face of any media challenging the status quo these days, given the likely personal outcomes. That's why I don't even like any of the Tenet opinion piece crap, dumb people annoy me too much to want to hear more dumb takes.
And two: they allegedly knew/suspected the money came from Russia, the country not the government, which if you care about the US' warhawking sanctions would be a no-no, but personally IDGAF about the Biden administration's perpetual hard-on for playing chicken with WW3, so I say fuck those bitches and get paid son. If it were the gov sure, but supposedly independent Russian citizens aren't someone I need to cut off.
The Lotus Eaters are making similar points looking through their segment on it all and even they're pointing out that despite being friends with people like Lauren Chen they are looking incredibly dumb for taking that money and not doing due diligence. With that much money that's involved? Yeah, bet your arse you hire some professionals to check everything is above board.
Some people here really need to get a grip on what's actually being written here about a situation instead of knee-jerking but that's the internet for you. Respect to the Lotus Eaters at least as well for Harry especially coming out and saying they don't take foreign money lol.
But it's not illegal to take the money. Unless I'm mistaken the charges are a failure to register with the DOJ and money laundering, would either of those be on a background check?
I'm not a US Citizen or anything as if it wasn't obvious, however even if I was forget background checks in this day and age I feel there's no such thing as too much paranoia with regards to glowies.
I don't know if a background check would have prevented the charges here.
Lauren isn't getting charged. The indictment is against two nobody Russia Today employees who can't be arrested and are probably patsies of the DOJ anyway
I didn't say she was getting charged. I've said she wasn't in fact.
True and that's where I have sympathy for them, but this is exactly why you make sure you don't give the feds an excuse. If I ever make real money one of my plans is to have accountants comb through shit as fine as possible to make sure that if anybody goes looking at my stuff they just waste their time and look silly.
You hate glowies so you just defame their victims and blame them for being targeted by glowies in your comments. Got it. No wonder the people in your country stopped protesting so quickly about being replaced.
lol fuck off, you're going to post about defamation? Make sure you're accurate in your accusations about me
Where was the lie? That's exactly what you've spent the past two days doing.
Will do. As-salamu alaykum my brother.
I'm aware.
And they'd tell you "no."
And if it was a large amount of money I'd consider it worthwhile to do my own investigating into their backgrounds a little and yes I'd go that far