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Al Jazeera
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Niko Vorobyov

‘Guerrilla projects’: Russia revels in US allegations of media warfare

Russian President Vladimir Putin enjoys a close relationship with Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of broadcaster RT [File: Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters]

Last week, the United States Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing a Tennessee-based company, believed to be Tenet Media, of accepting millions of dollars from the Russian state-owned media outlet RT and promoting “pro-Russia propaganda and disinformation across social media to US audiences”.

Tenet was responsible for high-profile right-wing influencers, including Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern and Tim Pool.

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