Last week’s news of a DOJ indictment involving influencers has led to disappearing author pages, shuttered YouTube channels and one influencer warning others not to cooperate with the feds.
Right-wing social media influencers and online platforms are scrambling after the Department of Justice revealed several of their own were allegedly enlisted into a Russian manipulation scheme to sway the presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor.
An author page for Lauren Chen is no longer available on the webpage for far-right activist Charlie Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA. Along with her husband, Chen co-founded a company, Tenet Media, that’s at the heart of the DOJ indictment. YouTube took down several Tenet Media channels and one field reporter said the outlet has “ended” after the feds alleged Chen and her husband knowingly used it to funnel millions of dollars from Russian officials to right-wing content creators who were paid to push far-right and pro-Kremlin talking points.
Anyone else noticed tankies seem to have gotten quieter as well?
Remarkable, isn’t it
No… but that is probably because I have collected a small list of the most active halfwhits in my blocklist.
I hope more of them get called out.
I also hope they have to pay back their “earnings”.
$100.000 a week? Throw them in prison.
It’s funny how fox and right wing news cherry picks the info they say the DOJ is calling Russian propaganda while saying that this is clamping down on free speech.
We don’t care that these people are saying inflation isn’t great and people are struggling fiscally…we care that they’re blasting out the message that “Ukraine is the enemy” and “we should apologize to Russia”. It also looks like they’ve been pushing weird Kamala sex stuff lies too. It’s a classic lie sandwich, a lie told between two “truths”.
[Tim] Pool said on his podcast that he’s been contacted by federal authorities and plans to provide a voluntary interview.
Of course, the first rat to jump off the ship and into the federal lifeboat is Tim Pool. Not even slightly surprised.
From here, it’ll be a race to give statements and turn on each other as all the best deals get made to the earliest and most thorough cooperators.
Charlie is not an activist, he is a radical. More accurately, he is a terrorist who bussed other terrorists to attack the Capitol on January 6th.
He’s a terrorist that our government has declined to prosecute.
Traitor.
They engaged in treason. The word is traitor.
Unprosecuted is the word I fixate on
The standard response is: the DOJ must be lying. MAGA is particularly susceptible to misinformation at this point, so for many, that claim may be enough.
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