A federal indictment has exposed a massive scandal involving a Tennessee media company, Tenet Media, that secretly took nearly $10 million from Russian state-backed media. The indictment, unsealed on Wednesday, reveals that Tenet Media was actually a covert Russian operation designed to push hidden Kremlin messages to American audiences.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) claims that Russian media giant RT and its employees, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, funneled this cash to Tenet Media to manipulate opinions in the U.S. The scheme allegedly aimed to stir up division and influence political narratives in the West.

High-profile conservative figures like Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Lauren Southern were all involved with Tenet Media. They were duped into believing they were working with a wealthy investor named "Eduard Grigoriann" – a name that turned out to be fake. They had no clue their funding came from the Kremlin. Rubin, Pool, and Johnson ha...