Journalist Robert Silverman and I discuss the recent Russian scheme to funnel large piles of cash to Right Wing influencers, and the massive amounts of domestic money they receive for their bad takes.

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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-indicted-covertly-funding-and-directing-us-company-published-thousands

Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/09/05/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool/

What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Said in Those Tenet Media Videos

https://www.wired.com/story/influencers-tenet-benny-johnson-tim-pool-russia-propaganda-videos/

How ‘Coward and Phony’ Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-coward-and-phony-tim-pool-became-one-of-the-biggest-political-youtubers-on-the-planet

Tim Pool Caught COVID—and Joe Rogan Offered to Pay His Medical Bills

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pool-caught-covid-and-joe-rogan-offered-to-pay-his-medical-bills

Tim Pool’s News Site Plagiarized the Mainstream Media He Claims to Hate

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pools-news-site-timcastcom-plagiarized-from-the-mainstream-media-he-claims-to-hate

The Long, Lucrative Right-wing Grift Is Blowing Up in the World's Face

https://www.splinter.com/the-long-lucrative-right-wing-grift-is-blowing-up-in-t-1793944216

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