Now let's see Musk's X/Twitter do the same thing. Meta bans Russian state media outlet RT over ‘foreign interference activity’ https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/media/meta-bans-rt-russian-state-propaganda-outlets/index.html Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced Monday that it has banned Russian state media broadcaster RT and other Kremlin-controlled networks, alleging the outlets have engaged in deceptive influence operations and attempted to evade detection. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. Prior to Monday’s ban, RT had 7.2 million followers on Facebook and 1 million followers on Instagram. RT did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment. The move comes days after the US Justice Department announced charges against two RT employees for funneling nearly $10 million into a US company, identified by CNN as Tenet Media, to create and amplify content that aligned with Russian interests. The covert influence campaign was aimed at the American public ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, US officials said. Tenet Media boasts a slate of high-profile right-wing, pro-Trump commentators including Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson and several others. All of them have released statements saying they were victims of the alleged Russian scheme. After the Justice Department announcement, RT responded with mocking statements that did not address the specifics of the US allegations. The Justice Department indictment was just one piece of the recent US government crackdown on RT and other Russian state mouthpieces. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday accused RT’s leaders of running an online crowdfunding effort to supply military equipment to Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Meta’s ban on RT comes after years of a cat-and-mouse game between the American social media giant and Russian state actors. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Meta blocked Russian state-run media from running ads on its platform. Executives from Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet, which owns Google, are expected to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday on their platforms’ work to combat foreign threats to US elections.
Paid Russian-disinformation influencer is suing Kamala Harris for her ad containing a video showing exactly what he stated claiming it is a 'false statement'. "She ruined his podcast" -- guess he's mad about being cut off from his rubles. The only remaining question is when are they going to lock up these right-wing influencers for their crimes of being part of the paid Kremlin disinformation machine. Russian Disinfo Influencer Whines Harris Ruined His Podcast Tim Pool is suing Kamala Harris for the dumbest reason. https://newrepublic.com/post/186094/russia-disinfo-influencer-tim-pool-kamala-harris-sue-podcast Right-wing pundit Tim Pool announced that he is suing Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign for interfering with his business by posting a false statement. Pool declared on his podcast Tuesday night that he had filed a lawsuit in West Virginia against Harris’s presidential campaign alleging that the campaign had committed defamation and bad faith misconduct. Pool’s lawsuit is in response to a post on the KamalaHQ account, the campaign’s press account, that includes a clip of Pool speaking with right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer in late August. “Trump operatives say their Project 2025 plan is to give Trump total, unchecked legal power so they can jail and execute those who don’t support Trump if he wins (They have since scrubbed this video from YouTube),” the post said, without referring to either Pool or Loomer by name. “Should Democrats be in jail? No question,” Pool said in the clip. “When Donald Trump gets elected should he start locking them up? No question. Should there be lists of Democrats that need to go to jail, one hundred percent. And the reason for that is they committed crimes.” The right-wing pundit then went on to say that he wanted Trump loyalists as the attorney general, deputy attorney general, and the heads of the FBI and CIA. “Not just jail—they should get the death penalty!” chirped Loomer. The KamalaHQ account had originally posted the clip of Pool speaking with Loomer in June, when Joe Biden was still at the top of the Democratic ticket and the account was called BidenHQ, with a similar caption. Pool didn’t seem to take issue with that post, only the one in late August. “I have engaged legal counsel,” he wrote on X in response to the August post. “We are preparing to take action. More to come.” In a response video, Pool pushed back at the claims that he was a Donald Trump operative and that he had anything to do with Project 2025. He seemed most offended by the implication that he personally was calling for Trump’s political opponents to be killed. “I am opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances. I have argued against the death penalty in every circumstance,” Pool ranted. He claimed that the video had cut off his response arguing with Loomer’s extremist view. Unfortunately for Pool, it’s unclear whether he actually “argued against” Loomer in this particular circumstance because, again, the video can no longer be found on the internet. Earlier this month, the Justice Department alleged that Russian state media had funneled $10 million to an unnamed Tennessee-based media company, which was quickly determined to be Tenet Media, Pool’s employer. Tenet Media allegedly produced propaganda that aligned with the Russian government’s interests, and its employees were supposedly unwitting fonts of disinformation. The company has since shuttered, and Pool has claimed that if the allegations prove to be true, then he was “deceived.” Still, the right-wing YouTuber has insisted that his business was directly affected by the Harris campaign’s post. It’s unclear why Pool would believe that his work was affected by the post and not, say, the revelation that he may have been an unwitting Russian operative. Pool also claimed that there had been trespassers at his home and his neighbor’s home. It’s unclear why he believes the alleged trespassers to be in response to the Harris post, and not any of the other legal issues in which he’s found himself embroiled.
Lara loomer is advocating the death penalty for treason while defending a guy who orchestrated an actual coup.