The U.S. conservative media outlet facing allegations of Russian-funded propaganda is also a primary vector for climate disinformation.
Tenet Media isn’t named in the sweeping indictment that the Department of Justice released Wednesday. But the document alleges that two employees of RT, a Russian state media company, sent $10 million to an unnamed Tennessee-based company that uses the same slogan as Tenet. Multiple media outlets have also confirmed that the company is Tenet.
Tenet is a publishing platform for far-right conservative influencers, including Tim Pool and Benny Johnson. Both have a long history of producing content that denies, mocks and downplays climate policy, including during the time that DOJ alleges their work was supported by secretive Russian funding.
Neither has been accused of a crime and both wrote on social platform X to their millions of followers that they were “victims” and did not know about the Kremlin’s involvement.
