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.
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.