Dupes, Dopes, or Just Deceitful Tools? - WhoWhatWhy Dupes, Dopes, or Just Deceitful Tools? - WhoWhatWhy

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Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, and Benny Johnson are among the podcasters who claim they didn’t know they were getting piles of cash from Russia. Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / WhoWhatWhy (CC BY-SA 2.0) See complete attribution below.

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Right-wing podcasters like Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, and others contracted with Tenet Media, a Tennessee firm that, according to the Justice Department, was secretly funded by Russian state media. The indictment says two employees of Russia Today gave nearly $10 million to the company to spread pro-Kremlin and pro-MAGA messages to US audiences.

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The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Tim Pool caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED), Dave Rubin (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED), Benny Johnson  (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED), rubles (Bank of Russia / Wikimedia), rubles (Bank of Russia / Wikimedia), rubles (Bank of Russia / Wikimedia), rubles (Bank of Russia / Wikimedia), rubles (Bank of Russia / Wikimedia), rubles (Bank of Russia / Wikimedia), body (MART PRODUCTION / Pexels), body (Balpreet Singh / Pexels), chain (Helpka / Wikimedia – CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED), and body (Gage Skidmore / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED).


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    DonkeyHotey creates art to illustrate news articles and opinion pieces. His current work is a combination of caricature, photo collage, and photo manipulation.

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