https://substack.com/home/post/p-148540008

I’ve been writing about Russian Propaganda in dissident groups since 2015. Here’s one of the essays that best summarized my findings: Nine Lessons of Russian Propaganda.

Yesterday, two Russian nationals were indicted for funneling about $10 million to Tennessee-based Tenet Media. Tenet Media funsd popular figures in the right-leaning alt media like Tim Pool, Lauren Southern, and David Rubin.

You can look at their twitter account to see the topics they’re interested in. I think it matches the interest of many “MAGA” people. They tweet about Candace Owens, RFK Jr., and constant “own-the-libs” content. I’m not entirely unsympathetic to it, but I know it is deeply corrupted by Russian influence.

Elon, unsurprisingly for me, but perhaps surprisingly for you, has a long history of promoting Tenet Media. Here’s are example:

And here is another compilation of Elon’s long history of promoting Tenet:
https://x.com/rcubed2003/status/1831473593345306884

Okay, so you may be saying “so what?” I’m sorry about what Russia is doing to Ukraine, but here they are promoting issues and people that I agree with.

No they aren’t. They are working BOTH sides of hot button issues with the goal of creating a fractured society and ideally, a civil war. They talk about this explicitly:

By the way, Civil War seems to be one of Tim Pool’s favorite talking points:

I’m pretty Conservative. I hate media censorship. But a lot of the alternative platforms, as well as the stars that emerged on those platforms, are Russian puppets.

I wish Conservatives would realize that (1) they are being influenced by foreign actors and (2) Russians are operating on the other side of the political issues you find important too. In much of my work, I’ve attempted to get this across, for example, here and here.

The Kremlin works hard and invests billions in keeping America divided and angry.