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[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 222 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 96 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Anybody paying attention to how weird GOP media has been becoming for over a decade has been speculating in this direction. It's good that the DOJ has finally done something. And lol, tenet media has folded.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 69 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This story was in The New York Times. During 2016 election The New York Times published thousands of stories about Clinton email/Benghazi, not one on Trumps lifelong ties to NY/Russian mob. As if The New York Times wasn't in a particularly knowledgeable position to report on 70 years of NYC construction & mob history. All the money in my pocket says The Paper of Record has been taking Russian money for decades.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

New York Times front page, three days before the 2016 election:

Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia

FUCK YOU NEW YORK TIMES

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yup! Remember Romney saying that Russia was our geopolitical enemy and Obama being the one who called that ridiculous? Ever since then the Republicans have had an absurd love affair with Putin.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, there was an honest gambit there with Our Pal Russia, the same one that was tried with China. It didn't work but it seemed like a fair thing to try, especially considering the economic constraints of the alternative.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Oh yeah, at the time Obama was right to try to repair relations with Russia. They’ve simply grown worse as they figured out how to poke at the world via information warfare.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"Secretly"

This is the dead giveaway that NYT does not give a SHIT about all the fucked up pro-Trump shit they've pulled. Not even a little.

This is why I have zero problems when conservatives want to shit on it. "Yeah!" I say. Even though yeah usually they have something good there. Liberal media - yeah right. Fuck.

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[–] pornellius@lemmynsfw.com 75 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah secretly my ass, this shit has been so obvious for years now

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[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tucker reports his shock at the current turn of events from his summer home in St. Petersburg Florida. 😉😉

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago

"Secretly" lmao

Come on now. Worst kept secret in politics.

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 46 points 3 months ago
[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago

Secretly?! 🤣👌🏼

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

Worst kept secret ever.

[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 34 points 3 months ago

Secretly?

Shit, I'm from the UK and I don't know a single person here that doesn't already know that the Conservatives in the US are infested with russian mouth pieces.

Horribly kept secret if you can even call it one.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This seems like kind of a poorly kept secret...

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Weren't they bragging about it back when Trump was in office?

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep, it went from "Better Dead Than Red" in the late 20th century to "I'd rather be Russian than be a democrat" on actual t-shirts.

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[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Companies should be dissolved. Men should go to prison. This is tantamount to treason

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I think we should imprison the women involved as well

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[–] b3an@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)

‘an American media company’

Fucking who? Why this protection through obfuscation. Ugh

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They do in the article. It's Tenet, Dave Rubin, Dim Fool, and a third person are also named.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

I’m just frustrated they use this technique to drag people into the article. Maybe I just wanna see the company and if I’d heard of it before.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

It's in the indictment: Tenet Media

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The consensus (in most press) is that it's Tim Poole's company.

He's even made a statement about it. So it seems like a solid guess.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"secretly worms" is a pretty good way to describe Tucker Carlson, actually

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

It’s not a fucking secret. Russia has been fucking with America for like 70 years.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 26 points 3 months ago

Secretly my ass. Anyone with a brain can see the same thing happening on Facebook, popular podcasts, and YouTube as what we see Lemmy from HB and ml.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"worms it's way into"? Boy, you're late, that worming has been done ages ago. It laid its eggs, and they did hatch already.

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

This reads like a Baptist minister discovering a boyfriend his daughter's room, and then losing his shit like the boyfriend hadn't been invited in. "How could you dupe my sweet, innocent political party with your seductive money and influence!"

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hot off the derp files.

No shit.

Fox News— Tucker Carlson, Shawn Hannity, Stepford Nazi edition wife Laura Ingraham and now Jesse Watters have been in the bag forever.

Rupert Murdoch has been licking Pootie’s sack and trying to bring down democracy.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In case you missed the little summary above: Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin are the big ones.

And if you've never heard of them, your average Trump voter has.

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[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would be surprised if there weren’t well placed Russian influence in most conservative media in the United States.

[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Bingo. People keep saying how obvious because views aligned 100% with Russia (which, randomly, is like lottery odds). I have conservative friends who believe all that shit and they don't follow any of these clowns. The amount of times they've regurgitated Russian propaganda to me verbatim is hard to comprehend, and I've been shouting this from the rooftops for the better part of 2 years. It was just so damn obvious. People who have never given a thought to news outside of the US all the sudden telling me about Nazis in Ukraine was just a little too on the nose.

I'd bet my savings account this is just the tip of the iceberg.

[–] Zomg@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Unsurprising news from anyone with half a brain cell...

[–] credo@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tim Pool! I once knew a guy who thought everything he said was amazing

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Tim Pool really recently said that he supports the death penalty for treason...

https://x.com/ItsDeanBlundell/status/1831677147146080386

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Now do Congress

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Open secret

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago
[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fox News curiously silent.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

You guys!!! Why didn't anyone tell me about the secret? I had NO idea and now I look like an ASSHOLE!

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What ever happened to the NRA after that russian spy thing?

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[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Now do Tucker

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