Are they traitorous grifters? Are they victims? Are they just useful idiots?

These are the questions people are now asking after an indictment was unsealed that alleges that some of the biggest right-wing influencers on this platform received millions of dollars to pump out videos to spread Russian propaganda ahead of the 2024 election.

We're going to be talking about that and so much more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news.

So let's just jump into it.

So the Russian government has allegedly gotten millions of dollars to some of the biggest right-wing influencers in the world who just so happened to say things like, this is psychotic.

Ukraine is the enemy of this country.

Ukraine is our enemy being funded by the Democrats.

I will stress this again, one of the greatest enemies of our nation right now is Ukraine.

And so that is Timpool.

He's one of six big personalities at a Tennessee-based company by the name of Tenet Media. But the biggest ones there besides him being the likes of Benny Johnson and Dave Rubin.

And with this, I want to say one, they, along with Tenant Media itself, are alleged to be just

one key part of a massive Russian influence campaign targeting unwitting Americans all over

the country. And two, to be clear, neither Tenet media or anyone at the company is actually being accused of wrongdoing.

And I'm not saying Tim Poole was ordered to say those things about Ukraine.

Part of this alleged Russian scheme could just be Russian operatives, seeing creators saying things that they love.

Pro-Russian talking points and going, let's make sure these guys don't have to worry about cash.

Which funny enough is a tactic that Tim Poole himself talked about in the past, though, through a slightly different veil.

So what happens with social media, particularly YouTube, where it's really easy, you can have a foreign agent or even the government or some corporation or whatever, say, this guy talks about things that we really like.

Dump ad money into his channel through Google AdSense and they'll never know we were the ones funding them and you can't

prove it. Because all of this actually has to do with the DOJ charging two employees of the Russian

state-controlled media network RT with conspiracy to violate the foreign agents registration act.

And they're accused of secretly paying $10 million to a company in Tennessee that's now

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