‘Guerrilla projects’: Russia revels in US allegations of media warfare
Al Jazeera
Public figures close to President Putin goad Washington after the DoJ alleged that RT is puppeteering social media influencers.
Last week, the United States Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing a Tennessee-based company, believed to be Tenet Media, of accepting millions of dollars from the Russian state-owned media outlet RT and promoting “pro-Russia propaganda and disinformation across social media to US audiences”.
Tenet was responsible for high-profile right-wing influencers, including Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern and Tim Pool.
“Ukraine is the enemy of this country,” Pool angrily declared on his YouTube blog in August to his 1.3 million subscribers.
“Ukraine is our enemy, being funded by the Democrats … Ukraine is the greatest threat to this nation and to the world. We should rescind all funding and financing, pull out all military support, and we should apologise to Russia.”
Although politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties have approved defence spending for Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia, a vocal Republican faction centred around presidential candidate Donald Trump is calling to either scale down or halt aid entirely, which would advantage Russia in the conflict.
