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realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian influence operation, US says

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realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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An indictment alleges a media company linked to six conservative influencers — including Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson — was secretly funded by Russian state media employees.
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    Duped? How? By getting paid?

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      Oopsie I was just so confused by this giant bag of cash!

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        I’m sure at least some of them truly believed they were worth more than shit

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        Be nice to me, I’M the victim here!

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      My job dupes me into coming in every night by uploading some wacky numbers to my bank account every two weeks. I fall for it every time.

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        The whacky numbers in your bank account are quite convenient to have tbf

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      The U.S. Justice Department doesn’t allege any wrongdoing by the influencers, some of whom it says were given false information about the source of the company’s funding. Instead, it accuses two employees of RT, a Russian state media company, of funneling nearly $10 million to a Tennessee-based content creation company for Russia-friendly content.

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        TN based. So again, “duped”.

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      By getting paid

      More like bribed out of their minds. They absolutely KNEW that what they were doing wasn’t worth a fraction of the money was handed to them.

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