A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee.
There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...
Indictment: justice.gov/d9/2024-09/u.s…
And the Canadian entity that owns Tenet Media
The indictment specifies that two of the people who work for this Tennessee company (Tenet) were "deceived" -- meaning they didn't know that the Russian government was running an influence op.
Dave Rubin has 2.4 million subscribers and Tim Pool has 1.37 million.
Benny Johnson also has almost 2.4m, but they apparently rounded down from 1.37m --> 1.3m with Tim Pool so I figured Rubin's 2.44m --> 2.4m was the same.
Some more legwork in this thread on identifying the other unnamed (and very lightly masked) "commentators" in the indictment
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