Good day. Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Friday, September 6th, 2024. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's article written by Denison forums, Dr. Ryan Denison.

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice, the DOJ, issued an indictment against the Russian State News Broadcaster RT, claiming

that it paid nearly $10 million to several conservative pundits in the hopes of promoting a pro-Russian

agenda. Since launching last fall, the company in question, since identified as Tennessee-based

tenant media, has published almost

2,000 videos through social media outlets like YouTube and X, formerly Twitter.

Yet, the content creators in question insist, and the DOJ affirms, that they were unaware

of the company's links to Russia.

To help hide the origins of their financing,

Tenet claimed that the company was founded by a fictitious individual named Edward Gregorian.

Yet, despite lucrative contracts that paid the creators upwards of $400,000 a month,

the Russian agents in charge of Tenet eventually grew frustrated that the commentators

were not sharing more of the company's videos. Ultimately, it appears that encouraging them to do so

was the extent of the influence they wielded over many of the pundits, with each stating that

they maintained both editorial and content control

over what they produced. Still, the indictment claims that, quote, while the views expressed

in the videos are not uniform, the subject matter and content of the videos are often consistent

with the government of Russia's interest in amplifying U.S.

domestic division in order to weaken U.S. opposition to core government of Russia interests,

such as the ongoing war in Ukraine. In quote. Moreover, FBI director Chris Ray warns that China and Iran

have also attempted to do the same.

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