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.

As far as I can tell the indictment doesn't say of 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.

As far as I can tell the indictment doesn't say of 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 to 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.