hi friends welcome back so it appears that Russia is buying influence on YouTube and Twitter and other social medias this is a very serious story it intersects with Elon Musk all of the stock promoters and many of the conservative social media personalities um I want to go through the details of this and also too I can confirm this for myself that this stuff is real Russia contacted me I said no I want to make that really clear Russia contacted me and I said no which I'll show you in a moment here um unfortunately though there are other Americans out there that will say yes to anything as long as money is attached um this is what it says it says two Russia based RT employees indicted by us internet domains seized an election influence probe so again you have Russia trying to buy influence and um guys we got to bring up the Elon mus situation this is Mr musk right here remember he talks about on Twitter all the time oh guys this is all about Free Speech this platform is all about Free Speech as the robots and the misinformation disinformation spread right they pretend it's about Free Speech but really uh it's about spreading Russian Bots and Russian propaganda uh this is very very unfortunate and um I'll show you guys this first see this is back in 2021 I was contacted by Russia times who is now banned in the USA this person says here hello my name is Ryan Berlin I'm producer for telis show on RT America called boom bust I'm reaching out to see if Chris nor would be interested in joining a boom bust on RT America this week Etc I wrote I said I appreciate the offer but at this time I'm not a good fit uh I was being polite they contacted me again immediately he like Chris thanks for getting back to me are you suggesting this topic not not uh not a fit or did you decline to appear on the show at all and I say I'm I'm probably not a good fit for the show I do appreciate you reaching out though uh and they said okay understood thanks for get back to me right so they asked me a couple times do I want to come on Russia Times TV I said no um unfortunately not everyone says no and the basic gist of it is is they were talking about $10 million here uh let me read the details of this stuff um and again I I I'm really upset and pissed off by this thing I'm not surprised I understand how this game is played I I told you guys this stuff before that there's a bunch of Bally blue check robots on uh Twitter there's been sort of like we don't know where the money's coming from but I mean evidently the US dust Department saying hey it looks like Russia I'm not shocked uh it could be Chinese money as well is pumping out these Bots and often time these uh Bots that you see on Twitter Youtube Etc uh they're all promoting Trump um so this is it here's here's what it says uh we alleged that as part of that effort uh RT that means Russian times and its employees including the defendants implemented a nearly $10 million scheme to fund and direct a Tennessee based company to publish and disseminate content deemed favorable to the Russian government to implement this scheme the defendants directly uh directed the company to contract with a us-based social media influencers to share this content and their platform so again Russia contacted me I said no but not everyone is like me some people say yes unfortunately the subject matter and content of many of the videos published by the company were often consistent with Russia's interest in amplifying US domestic divisions in order to weaken us opposition to core russian interests particularly the ongoing war in Ukraine and um essentially what it was is um this is a uh Tennessee social media company it's called tenant media this is it right here this is their website and um if you guys hav't foll my channel you'll know we talked about this before this is creators agency that if you don't know these um this agency they took a whole bunch of money from FTX and they all promoted that basic Ponzi um regarding the uh tenant media right this these guys they're taking a whole bunch of money from Russia and um this is the who's on their roster Lauren Southern Tim p uh he's a really he's probably one of the biggest YouTubers out there in terms of conservative YouTubers and again they tend to be sympathetic to Russian interests Taylor Hansen's on this list um if you guys know these people you can let me know I just I don't follow the conservative media I know who Tim p is the other ones I don't know Matt Christensen Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson so I'm I I don't well I can I can kind of figure it out I I can tell I can tell very quickly from their bios that chances are these are all conservative people because like this Benny Johnson guy National Review The Blaze Etc um sorry guys I'm a bit pissed off right now okay here's another headline um us accuses Russia of using State media to spread disinformation and Inter interference and Russia in to influence elections let's read some more details of this stuff um there's a whole bunch of people involved with this and um I I guess they they they list two names I actually have the um I have the uh the the charges right here right and I guess we found two of them but there's like still 27 uh people on the loose um there even actually uh NBC reached out for a statement from Russia times it was kind of a weird reply that they got they're like yo what are you doing with our elections I'm trying to calm down a bit here here right here NBC asked RT so that's Russia times press office about news of the actions that means you know we're accusing you of interfering with our elections and buying social media influence uh and then Arie replied one ha two haha three haaaaaa it's like what the what the f is this right this is their reply when asked for like you know you've been charged with stuff how do you reply number four they say 2016 called it want it cliches back number five three things are certain uh in life death taxes and RT's interference in elections remember the USA had baned them because this was a a Russia media Outlet um and the also says here we got to earn our pay our Kremlin paychecks uh somehow right they're kind of making jokes and then somehow somewhere secretary Clinton is sad that she's not because of her so again that was their response to the charges uh let me read some more details of this stuff um two Russia Nationals who work for Russia State controlled media Outlet RT again Russia times catian kalishnikov and El aanas Eva uh were also charged with conspiracy to violate the foreign agents registration act and conspiracy to commit money laundering prosecutors alleged they relied on a Tennessee based company and contracted with us-based social media influencers to Target specific demographics and regions as part of the calculate effort to subvert the election and again we're talking about this agency here who hires these social media people here right I've seen this stuff before we've talked about before on the channel where some of these people you see on social media are shady character uh and and again we're talking about Russian money going to Americans to promote Russian interests um this also says here uh they helped uh they help published nearly 2,000 English language videos on Tik Tok Instagram X and YouTube where they have racked up 16 million views according to prosecutors the companies and influencers uh quote never disclosed to the influencers or their millions of followers it's ties to Russia times or the Russian government and instead claimed they Ed quote a private investor who was in fact a fictitious Persona God so using like fake people to funnel money to uh the YouTubers the charges do not resent the end of the investigation so this could get bigger and um it's interesting because we're talking about say Mr musk here and his whole Twitter thing and and um if you understand kind of what's going on musk tweets out all day every day oh this is all about Free Speech Free Speech free speech and then he's like you know always now uh tweeting out fake um I'm not making up it's uh what do you want to call it AI generated images of of KLA Harris and stuff and you know accusing her being a communist dictator like he's putting her in communist guard and stuff like that I'm not going to show you the pictures if you want to find him you can but it's the kind of crap that he's doing and he's like claiming free speech and then um just recently and I'm talking about musk and so you understand how does this connect I'll make it really clear the musan the the Russian money is going to you know people on X people on YouTube Etc to spread misinformation also too it's to to spread divisions and then so for example if Elon tweets out something oh yeah KLA Harris is a is a communist right and then you have all these bot accounts from Russia going oh yeah yeah yeah you know you're gonna lose all your freedoms in USA like all this like just effing nonsense um and this is unfortunately some people fall for this stuff um and this is something else this is this was happened recently uh I'll read the headline here Tucker calls since guest downplays uh I guess I can say Holocaust as Elon call must calls interview worth watching so basically Elon Musk was promoting Holocaust Den stuff with tucko Carlson Elon Musk ended up deleting um the Tweet you can see it right here and um I hope you guys understand the danger of of this stuff it's it's really really dangerous of stuff that Elon Musk is promoting on his platform there was another one recently which is kind of crazy I don't know if I have it here I'm getting so pissed off okay right here I'll just give you the rundown I'm not going to read through the stuff but basically people are arguing over uh what happened in Germany in during World War II right and the someone had a commed note of Wikipedia of like the history of the war but they didn't actually really re let me calm down let me just put this way um the the views that are expressed by musk uh are very very questionable okay I'll put it that way um and then he claims that I can say whatever I want because it's free speech and then his Tesla stock promoters right all those people say oh yeah yeah this is all about Free Speech right and then again the money's coming from Russia um there I've seen reports too they got money coming in from China promoting these kind of fake things that you'll see on social media and guys you know let me pose this question you and and I'm and I'm speaking to the people who are more right leaning or conservative just what do you think Reagan would say about this stuff I I this is this is a sincere question you know what would Reagan and and guys I I I grew up in the 80s right I remember the Cold War I remember this stuff and like this idea that you're going to be promoting Russia interest just for money I mean come on it's awful and you know I have to bring this this politics stuff up because it's like I I don't think people realize like how egregious this stuff is back in 2019 and I've mentioned this before in the channel I'll mention again if you don't know um this the Trump was like Hey you know we got to get out of we got to get out of NATO just let's just let's stop doing that it's just like a waste of time and money for us that kind of stuff and his his AIDS right the people who you know are are are I'm going to call them patriots they're concerned they're just like like whoa what's this what's this Trump guy talking about pulling out of NATO he it's like abandon our allies and they started leaking this stuff to to the press and I understand if if if you're a Trumper or whatever you just ignore news or anything like that because it doesn't make any sense to you and you're illiterate I I'm mean here but but I get that guys I I it's just this is this is so Asing um and I've said so many times in this channel uh you know if you if you want to be a republican you want to say hey I'm all about cutting taxes and stuff like that I actually have no problem with that that is a and honest discussions no problems with that you want to talk about like minimum wage or whatever but if we're getting into the realm of like hey you know I want to promote fake images and I want to promote fake news and I want to you know Pro promote fake information you you've lost me it's not free speech guys it it's not uh and I don't know what else to tell you either understand this stuff or you don't or and there's there thing that's that's that's awful about this stuff is like you don't know sometimes who's real or not real when you read through you know tweets and comments and accounts Etc you don't know sometimes uh but I will say this uh there was a report that came out recently and it was about all of the you know fake Bots and stuff that you see on social media essentially how this game is played is is they actually find real people social media accounts um it's often attractive women I'm telling you what it is uh they pull the images from their actual you know Instagrams or whatever so you are looking at you know a series of someone's real pictures and then they just you know tweet whatever prot Trump SL uh pro-russian interest kind of stuff and then all the accounts Retreat each other they Retreat the same stuff and then essentially people on social media oh wow who's that hot girl and supporting Trump I want to I want to support that true and then you know you you you sort of kind of dup just regular Americans into it I I I get it though uh when you when you say this kind of stuff and this is sort of why I have to show Fox News this is coming from Fox News uh they're reporting it right when you report these kind of things um then under Fox news's Own Story you have all these Bots saying oh it's this all fake it's all fake that kind of stuff but Fox News wouldn't rerun this story if if they didn't think it was real and and I mean guys this this is our doj is saying yo you know we got to watch out for social media and again the money is funneled through tenant media it's a tennessy based thing and then and then the money then gets to the social media influencers that tend to be on the conservative side so uh I'd like to hear you guys' thoughts on this stuff I hope we understand that when anyone tells you that I you know I'm just going to uh be about Free Speech all day every day but it's really about promoting Russian interests and fake news slm and disinformation uh don't put any trust in these kind of people so please be careful out there and I'll catch you in next video