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Useful Idiots? How Right-Wing Influencers Got $ to Spread Russian Propaganda

Useful Idiots? How Right-Wing Influencers Got $ to Spread Russian Propaganda

On with Kara Swisher vor 2 Jahren

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Last week, the Department of Justice announced major indictments
alleging that, among other things, the Kremlin was paying
right-wing influencers, like Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, and Benny
Johnson, to spread Russian propaganda. The payments were funneled
through a Tennessee-based company called Tenet Media, and while
Rubin, Pool, and Johnson deny knowledge of the plot ... they don’t
seem to have asked too many questions about the mysterious
benefactor who was supposedly funding Tenet and paying them
unseemly large amounts of money. Unfortunately, this is only the
latest in a string of foreign influence campaigns coming from
Russia, China and Iran that target American elections. To
break down all the news, Kara is joined by Julia Davis, Alex
Stamos, and Brandy Zadrozny. Julia is a columnist for the Daily
Beast, an investigative reporter, and the creator of the Russian
Media Monitor; Alex is the chief information security officer at
SentinelOne, the founder of the Stanford Internet Observatory, and
a former chief security officer at Facebook; and Brandy is senior
reporter at NBC News who covers the Internet, especially politics,
tech, and extremism. Questions? Comments? Email us at
on@voxmedia.com or find Kara on Instagram/Threads as @karaswisher
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