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.
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.