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🔥Tenet Media is no more.
The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being 💥funded by Russian state-controlled media, accordingto Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.

⚠️The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of ❌“a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.

The company’s founders, Canadian #Lauren #Chen and her husband, #Liam #Donovon, have not yet commented publicly on the scandal.

The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, #Blaze #Media, which has already wiped episodes of her podcast from Spotify and deleted her contributor page from its website.

Blaze Media CEO #Tyler #Cardon told Semafor that the conservative anchor had been “terminated.”
🆘The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.
“I have been contacted by the FBI as a potential victim of a crime,” Pool postedon X on Thursday. “The FBI believes I have information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation and have requested a voluntary interview. I will be offering my assistance in this matter.”
⭐️YouTube also wiped Tenet Media’s content from its platform “after careful review” following the indictment, telling NBC Newsthat its decision to erase the channel and its affiliates was part of “ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.”

Tenet is just the latest flavor of #Russian-#backed #misinformation campaign that has plagued American politics,
but it is a sign of just how sizable the foreign country’s budget is in 2024 for influencing the November election.
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The New Republic · Pro-Trump Media Firm Abruptly Folds After Russia Scheme ExposedTenet Media has met a hilarious demise.

Week 31 submission for Loop In A Minute (#LIAM):

This week I took the Roland SH-4d outside into the garden and created this little loop. All parts that you hear are coming from this portable little synth and unofficial groovebox.

It was an interesting experience being outside, away from the office/studio where I spend most of my time. I have to do that again.

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#ICJ ruling gives a hard power boost to the BDS movement. The #genocidal state of #Isrealhell has to fundamentally change. It will now be difficult for states to villainize and delegitimize the #BDS movement given the high court's finding: Israel is indeed an #apartheid state (an illegal hell-on-earth) that is illegally occupying people's land.

The is the same court that tried the Nazis.

#thehague, #Palestine #israel #liam #omara @LiamOMaraIV #press #NicoleRangel

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