Media start-up from Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Dave Rubin was secret Russian influence campaign, indictment alleges

A media start-up from reactionary luminaries such as Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, and others secretly received funding from Russia, a new federal indictment alleges. Although the company isn’t listed in the indictment, context clues reveal it is most likely Tenet Media. On YouTube, Tenet Media describes itself as “a network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues.”Its homepage highlights six commentators: Rubin, Johnson, Pool, Southern, as well as Tayler Hansen and Matt Christiansen. The indictment also calls out two specific commentators whose followings on social media align with that of Pool and either Rubin or Johnson. “Founder-I and Founder-2 also worked together to deceive two U.S. online commentators (“Commentator-I” and “Commentator-2″), who respectively have over 2.4 million and 1.3 million YouTube subscribers.”On YouTube, Rubin has 2.44 million and Johnson has 2.39 million.