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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmaxs-benny-johnson-attacks-brittney-griner-drug-addict-america-hating-criminal-who">https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmaxs-benny-johnson-attacks-brittney-griner-drug-addict-america-hating-criminal-who</a></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander claims he was “offered a job at Twitter in 2018”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/09/22 9:03 AM EST</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tucker Carlson claims Joe Biden wants Paul Whelan to remain imprisoned in Russia because he's white</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 9:03 PM EST</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News host says hostage exchange for Brittney Griner “should never have been made, ever”</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 8:01 PM EST</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington Post columnist criticizes hostage exchange that freed Brittney Griner, claims it will “create more hostage-taking”</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 7:37 PM EST</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elon Musk reinstates Twitter accounts of proud Islamophobe Laura Loomer and bigoted conspiracy theorist Roger Stone</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 5:57 PM EST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matt Walsh: Brittney Griner will “return to us more committed to her own self-victimization and personal resentments than ever before”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 4:49 PM EST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Timcast contributor gives full-throttle endorsement of Ye for president</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 3:29 PM EST</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dana Loesch: If other American prisoners in Russia “were as anti-American as Brittney Griner” then “maybe they'd be released a hell of a lot quicker”</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 3:24 PM EST</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charlie Kirk: “If you're a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States Marine?”</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 2:40 PM EST</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing media praised Herschel Walker’s decision to double down on anti-trans attacks before he lost the Georgia Senate election</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 2:25 PM EST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate deniers gain traction on Elon Musk's Twitter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 2:15 PM EST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Blaze's Steven Crowder launches vile personal attacks on Brittany Griner: “She's not the best among us”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/08/22 </font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>RT.com is part of a Russian state-controlled news network. Founded in April 2005 as Russia Today, RT is “publicly</div><div>financed from the budget of the Russian Federation”, with additional revenue from advertising and sponsored</div><div>content.93 Sputnik.com was founded in November 2014 “by the Russian media group Rossiya Segodnya”, another</div><div>state-funded broadcaster.94</div><div>
</div><div>According to a 2020 report from the Oxford Internet Institute, RT.com “is one of the most important organizations</div><div>in the global political economy of disinformation.”95 A 2016 NATO report alleged that Sputnik spread a “fake story”</div><div>regarding asylum seekers in Germany.96</div><div>
</div><div>Disinformation campaigns waged by RT.com include coverage ahead of the US 2020 election that “amplified voices</div><div>of chaos” with headlines such as “The term ‘American democracy’ needs to be retired” and “election teeters on</div><div>the verge of chaos”.97 RT has also propagated so much vaccine misinformation that YouTube took the rare step of</div><div>suspending RT’s German account following its posting of anti-vaccine misinformation.98 According to King’s College</div><div>London research, both RT and Sputnik played an instrumental role in spreading misinformation about the poisoning</div><div>of Sergei Skripal, incorporating the views of a “parallel commentariat” and amplifying Russian government sources.99[screengrab]</div><div>
</div><div>This Russia Today article claims that the pandemic provided a convenient</div><div>opportunity for professional “<b>doom-mongers</b>” to spread fear by linking the</div><div>virus to climate change and overpopulation. It calls on people to not pay</div><div>attention to the “alarmist predictions for the planet.”100 <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Articles on RT.com</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">carry digital ads from Taboola, a “discovery platform” that typically promotes</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">content at the bottom of news articles and that states it has a commitment</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">to “minimizing [its] environmental impact”.101</span></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/03/matt-gaetz-2651215213/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/03/matt-gaetz-2651215213/</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx twt</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">att Gaetz blasted after standing up for anti-LGBTQ hate group and promoting a 'fascist sympathizer'</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida speaking at the 2019 Teen Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA in Washington, D.C., Gage Skidmore</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement March 25, 2021</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Thursday stood up for the Family Research Council, a hate group that has spent nearly 40 years spreading dangerous lies about LGBTQ people under the cloak of "religious freedom." He also attacked the Southern Poverty Law Center, a decades-old institution that tracks and reports on the more than 800 current hate groups of all kinds across the U.S.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It did not turn out well for the Florida Congressman, as some rushed to remind Gaetz, a top Trump MAGA sympathizer, of his own associations with the far right.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gaetz tweeted out an article from the conspiracy theory website Gateway Pundit, whose owner was regularly labeled the stupidest man on the Internet. The article, by <b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cassandra Fairbanks, paints Gaetz in a very favorable light to his far right supporters. Fairbanks previously worked for Sputnik, the Russian government state media site.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group. The @splcenter's designation of @FRCdc as a "hate group" caused a… https://t.co/QiJ5oaTm1j</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@Rep. Matt Gaetz)1616693100.0</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The SPLC is not a hate group.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Fairbanks, according to domestic extremism expert Jared Holt, is a "self-professed fascist sympathizer."</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sharing articles from a self-professed fascist sympathizer to own the SPLC https://t.co/a3kXCUcQ9o https://t.co/gIpDZWqBHo</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">— Jared Holt (@Jared Holt)1616700329.0</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Journalist Christopher Mathias offered up a similar characterization:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hardly a week goes by without a GOP congressman promoting/citing the propaganda of fascists. This time, it's Gaet… https://t.co/S6pvvRhI0f</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">— Christopher Mathias (@Christopher Mathias)1616701049.0</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gaetz also suggested MAGA is not a dangerous extremist group:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">How long until MAGA hats are considered an "extremist symbol?" How long until Christian or pro-life groups are "to… https://t.co/igtqPlLpTr</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@Rep. Matt Gaetz)1616697480.0</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Here's how some are responding to Congressman Gaetz's attack.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Journalist Daniel Moritz-Rabson posted a graphic of Fairbanks appearing on VDARE with its founder. VDARE is a white nationalist hate group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">oops pic.twitter.com/R17NOTDOug</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">— Daniel Moritz-Rabson (@DMoritzRabson) March 25, 2021</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Journalist Sam Youngman notes <b>Rep. Gaetz took Holocaust denier Chuck/Charles Johnson to the State of the Union Address and appears to continue to support Trump's attempt to overturn the election:</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This person took a Holocaust denier to the State of the Union and <b>voted against honoring the police who fought off</b>… https://t.co/nYQj0c0PJs</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">— Sam Youngman (@Sam Youngman)1616701347.0</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This Twitter user offered up the details:</font></p></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/how-did-russia-meddle-in-the-election/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/how-did-russia-meddle-in-the-election/</a></font></div><div>
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</div><div>Back in September, U.S. intelligence officials raised awareness about the possibility of the pandemic delaying the results of the 2020 presidential election and that foreign operatives might seize the delay as an opportunity to spew misinformation. However, it appears foreign adversaries have taken a backseat and are now opting to report on misleading claims made by Trump and his allies, according to NBC News.</div><div>
</div><div>In fact, one example of misinformation circulating on social media focuses on a report from the Russian-affiliated media outlet Sputnik.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"US President Donald Trump said that every vote that came in after Election Day will not be counted," Sputnik reported shortly after Trump tweeted, "Stop the count," Thursday morning.</span></div><div>
</div><div>#URGENT | 'Stop the count', Donald Trump urges on Twitter amid election results uncertainty https://t.co/1G6Ec5JabH… https://t.co/FYPYb48C5Q</div><div>— Sputnik (@Sputnik)1604585861.0</div><div>
</div><div><b>Other Russian-controlled media outlets have also shared misleading claims from the president with headlines like: "Trump calls results 'big WIN' & accuses opponents of 'trying to STEAL' election, gets 'misleading' label from Twitter," said RT, another Russian media operation, on Wednesday.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In addition to Trump's claims, his allies have also taken to Twitter under hashtags like #StoptheSteal as they spread more misinformation about the election results. Newt Gingrich has also echoed Trump's baseless claims.</span></div><div>
</div><div>On Thursday morning, he tweeted, "It is increasingly clear that Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are all being stolen by Democrats and the research is almost certainly going to yield far more votes stolen than Biden's current margins."</div><div>
</div><div>All of the misleading tweets have been flagged on Twitter with a label that reads: "Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process."</div><div>
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[Thread Here] Today, a more clear video has emerged that shows exactly what he was attempting.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The website claims a slow-motion video shows Gugino was attempting to hack into the police radio signal by waving his cell phone across the officer’s communications belt.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The practice, known as ‘skimming,’ is an old trick used by Antifa to locate police officers and plan violent activities bypassing the police response,” Rouz reported for OANN. “In addition, the 75-year-old, who’s been referred to as an agitator, was supposedly using the technology to black out police communications. That, however, didn’t quite work, and many Buffalo police officers support their embattled colleagues.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two Buffalo police officers — Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe — were charged with assault in the incident, and Gugino remains hospitalized in stable condition after bleeding from his head....matt geertz twt]</font></p></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: currentcolor none medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: currentcolor none medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px;">ref</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: currentcolor none medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px;">11/19</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: currentcolor none medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px;">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kristian Rouz appears on segments for One America News Network—ironic given he is working for a Russian outlet fingered in the 2016 election attack.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Poulsen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sr. National Security Correspondent</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Updated Nov. 02, 2019 2:02AM ET / Published Jul. 22, 2019 4:41AM ET </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EXCLUSIVE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the stories broadcast by the Trump-endorsed One America News Network sometimes look like outtakes from a Kremlin trolling operation, there may be a reason. One of the on-air reporters at the 24-hour network is a Russian national on the payroll of the Kremlin’s official propaganda outlet, Sputnik.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kristian Brunovich Rouz, originally from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, has been living in San Diego, where OAN is based, since August 2017, reporting on U.S. politics for the 24-hour news channel. For all of that time, he’s been simultaneously writing for Sputnik, a Kremlin-owned news wire that played a role in Russia’s 2016 election-interference operation, according to an assessment by the U.S. intelligence community.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s New Favorite Network Embraces Russian Propaganda</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OF COURSE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Poulsen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rouz’s on-air reports for OAN include a wholly fabricated 2017 segment claiming <b>Hillary Clinton is secretly bankrolling antifa </b>through her political action committee. Clinton, Rouz claimed falsely,<b> gave antifa protesters $800,000 that “went toward things like bricks, hammers, bats, and chains.”</b></span><b> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Other smears target billionaire financier George Soros, a longtime Kremlin bête noire. In one segment, Rouz amplified a thoroughly debunked claim that Soros collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, when the Jewish philanthropist was 14 years old. <b>Another Rouz story accused Soros of secretly funding migrant caravans.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kremlin propaganda sometimes sneaks into Rouz’s segments on unrelated matters, dropped in as offhand background information. A segment on the Syrian rescue workers known as the White Helmets references “allegations of the <b>White Helmets’ involvement in military activities, executions, and numerous war atrocities,</b>” but doesn’t disclose that those “allegations” were hoaxes that originated with Vladimir Putin and his proxies.</span> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“This completes the merger between Russian state-sponsored propaganda and American conservative media.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">— Clint Watts</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In another report, Rouz cast Clinton’s criticism of Brexit as an extension of her “grievous insults and fake narratives against Russia”—an assertion that makes sense only in the context of Rouz’s multiple reports claiming Russia was framed for hacking Democrats.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In all of Rouz’s OAN segments reviewed by The Daily Beast, he is introduced as a “One America correspondent,” with no disclosure of his work for Russia’s state-owned media, where he continues to file stories daily, primarily on economic news. </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“This completes the merger between Russian state-sponsored propaganda and American conservative media,” said former FBI agent Clint Watts, a research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. “We used to think of it as ‘They just have the same views’ or ‘They use the same story leads.’ But now they have the same personnel.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rouz didn’t respond to email and telephone inquiries for this story. Reached by email, OAN President Charles Herring invited The Daily Beast to submit written questions about the network’s arrangement with Rouz. But after receiving the questions, Herring cut off contact.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Online records show Rouz graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 2010 and went on to earn a master’s degree in international relations at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. His byline first appears on Sputnik in December 2014. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A few months later, he emigrated to the U.S., settling in Los Angeles in the spring of 2015, where he played guitar for an indie rock band called White Tar.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Oh shit, it's fucking Kristian! That's my ex-guitarist…”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Jov Paradice</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A former bandmate, whose stage name is Jov Paradice, told The Daily Beast that Rouz was secretive about his day job, except to say that he wrote articles about economics for a Russian company. In August 2016, Rouz worked for the<b> Los Angeles PR firm the Hoyt Organization</b>, according to a since-deleted tweet by the firm announcing his hire. He appears in an October 2016 photo on Hoyt’s Instagram feed, but isn’t readily apparent in subsequent photos. Hoyt didn’t respond to repeated email and telephone inquiries from The Daily Beast.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paradice said he and Rouz frequently clashed over their differing world views. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We kind of had a thing musically, but we were total opposites,” said Paradice. “When Trump was getting elected, he went into full sports coat mode. He had an indie style before—the whole blurred-line-of-sexuality thing—then he was wearing red ties and a suit. I said, ‘I’m not getting on the stage with Trump.’”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In August 2017, Rouz said he was leaving the band to accept a job offer in San Diego, Paradice recalls. It was only recently that Paradice discovered what that job was, when a Facebook friend posted a<b> One America video purporting to document a link between antifa and ISIS terrorists.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m thinking, there’s something familiar here, and then I go, ‘Oh shit, it’s fucking Kristian!’” said Paradice. “That’s my ex-guitarist… His bullshit propaganda is good enough now that they gave him a tiny bit of a platform.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rouz joined OAN at a time when his Russian employer was coming under heightened scrutiny over its role in Putin’s election interference, and its efforts to expand its American influence. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Hell of Working at Trump’s New Favorite Network</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CHANNEL ZERO</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Poulsen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In July 2017, Sputnik contracted with a struggling Washington, D.C.-area radio station to begin broadcasting Sputnik content 24 hours a day. Until then, the station played bluegrass music. </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The move came just months after a declassified U.S. intelligence assessment named Sputnik, and its sister television outlet RT America, as players in Putin’s election-interference campaign. By September, the FBI was investigating Sputnik for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.<b> The next month, Twitter announced it would no longer accept ads from Sputnik or RT.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The FARA issue was resolved in November 2017, when S<b>putnik formally registered with the Justice Department as an agent of a foreign power.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">One America pushes some of the same false stories as Sputnik and RT, but with none of the legal entanglements. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Founded and helmed by 77-year-old circuit-board millionaire Robert Herring Sr.</b>,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> OAN launched in 2013 as an answer to the chatty, opinionated content of mainstream cable-news channels—and a place for viewers too conservative for Fox News. Under Herring’s direction, the network embraced Trumpism enthusiastically, starting in 2016.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Over time, the network became increasingly dedicated to conspiracy theories and fake news, and became overtly supportive of Russia’s global agenda. When Rouz joined, the network had recently shed a number of anchors and other staffers who’d bristled at the change. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Though it’s available in only a handful of cable markets, OAN’s viewership includes some influential figures, including the president of the United States. According to Media Matters, <b>Trump has fallen for at least two fake stories after seeing them on OAN.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Poulsen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sr. National Security Correspondent</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@kpoulsen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.</font></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the stories broadcast by the Trump-<a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-embraces-right-wing-one-america-news-network-to-make-fox-news-jealous" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">endorsed</a> One America News Network sometimes look like outtakes from a Kremlin trolling operation, there may be a reason. One of the on-air reporters at the 24-hour network is a Russian national on the payroll of the Kremlin’s official propaganda outlet, Sputnik.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kristian Brunovich Rouz, originally from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, has been living in San Diego, where OAN is based, since August 2017, reporting on U.S. politics for the 24-hour news channel. 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transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><h3 class="FancylinksItemshort-headline" style="font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -0.5px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 28px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-stretch: normal;"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; 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transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;" /><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Trump’s New Favorite Network Embraces Russian Propaganda</font></a></h3><div class="Rubric Rubric--tilted" style="position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><div class="Rubriccontent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-stretch: normal; border-left: 1px solid rgb(240, 6, 6); border-right: 1px solid rgb(240, 6, 6); display: inline-block; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 6px; position: relative; z-index: 1; transform: rotate(-3deg);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">OF COURSE</font></div></div></div><div class="FancylinksItembottom-left" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column;"><div class="FancylinksItemauthor" style="font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 12px;"><div class="DEPRECATEDByline DEPRECATEDByline--horizontal DEPRECATEDByline--small" style="display: inline-flex; flex-flow: row wrap; white-space: pre;"><a class="TrackingLink DEPRECATEDBylineauthor" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/kevin-poulsen" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s; display: block;" /><h4 class="DEPRECATEDBylineauthor-name" style="letter-spacing: initial; 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</div></div></li></ul></section><div id="x33x15293340684162997" tynt-data="target" style="position: sticky;"><div class="tynt-viewability" style="position: relative !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;"><div tynt-data="no-content" class="tynt-ad-fence tynt-ad-fence-startpos-left"><div id="tynt-ad-7vm2vrt8" class="tynt-ad-container"><div class="tynt-infeed tynt-not-viewable" style="position: relative; float: left; clear: both; width: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important;"><div id="x33x15293340684162997" style="position: sticky;"><p class="tynt-close-btn" hs-name="Close Button" style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px; cursor: pointer;" /><div class="tynt-ad-frame-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0; position: relative; transform: translateZ(0px);"><div class="tynt-viewability" style="position: relative !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;"><div tynt-data="no-content" class="tynt-ad-fence tynt-ad-fence-startpos-left"><div id="tynt-ad-hygi158m" class="tynt-ad-container"><div class="tynt-infeed tynt-not-viewable" style="position: relative; float: left; clear: both; width: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important;"><p class="tynt-close-btn" hs-name="Close Button" style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px; cursor: pointer;" /><div class="tynt-ad-frame-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0; position: relative; transform: translateZ(0px);"><div class="tynt-viewability" style="position: relative !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;"><div tynt-data="no-content" class="tynt-ad-fence tynt-ad-fence-startpos-left"><div id="tynt-ad-i4e9xgvu" class="tynt-ad-container"><div class="tynt-infeed tynt-not-viewable" style="position: relative; float: left; clear: both; width: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important;"><p class="tynt-close-btn" hs-name="Close Button" style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px; cursor: pointer;" /><div class="tynt-ad-frame-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0; position: relative; transform: translateZ(0px);"><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rouz’s on-air reports for <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hell-of-working-at-trumps-new-favorite-tv-channel-one-america-news-network" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">OAN</a> include a wholly fabricated 2017 segment claiming Hillary Clinton is secretly bankrolling <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-groups-with-guns-plan-to-impersonate-and-infiltrate-antifa" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">antifa</a> through her political action committee. Clinton, Rouz claimed falsely, gave antifa protesters $800,000 that “went toward things like bricks, hammers, bats, and chains.” </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other smears target billionaire financier George Soros, a <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-election-hackers-are-backand-targeting-george-soros-and-his-open-society-foundations" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">longtime</a> Kremlin <em>bête noire</em>. In one segment, Rouz amplified a thoroughly debunked claim that Soros collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, when the Jewish philanthropist was 14 years old. Another Rouz story accused Soros of secretly funding migrant caravans.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kremlin propaganda sometimes sneaks into Rouz’s segments on unrelated matters, dropped in as offhand background information. A segment on the Syrian rescue workers known as the White Helmets references “allegations of the White Helmets’ involvement in military activities, executions, and numerous war atrocities,” but doesn’t disclose that those “allegations” were hoaxes that originated with Vladimir Putin and his proxies. </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In another report, Rouz cast Clinton’s criticism of Brexit as an extension of her “grievous insults and fake narratives against Russia”—an assertion that makes sense only in the context of Rouz’s multiple reports claiming Russia was framed for hacking Democrats.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In all of Rouz’s OAN segments reviewed by The Daily Beast, he is introduced as a “One America correspondent,” with no disclosure of his work for Russia’s state-owned media, where he continues to file stories daily, primarily on economic news. </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This completes the merger between Russian state-sponsored propaganda and American conservative media,” said former FBI agent Clint Watts, a research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. “We used to think of it as ‘They just have the same views’ or ‘They use the same story leads.’ But now they have the same personnel.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rouz didn’t respond to email and telephone inquiries for this story. Reached by email, OAN President Charles Herring invited The Daily Beast to submit written questions about the network’s arrangement with Rouz. But after receiving the questions, Herring cut off contact.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Online records show Rouz graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 2010 and went on to earn a master’s degree in international relations at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. His byline first appears on Sputnik in December 2014. </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A few months later, he emigrated to the U.S., settling in Los Angeles in the spring of 2015, where he played guitar for an indie rock band called White Tar.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">a former bandmate, whose stage name is Jov Paradice, told The Daily Beast that Rouz was secretive about his day job, except to say that he wrote articles about economics for a Russian company. In August 2016, Rouz worked for the Los Angeles PR firm the Hoyt Organization, according to a since-deleted tweet by the firm announcing his hire. He appears in an October 2016 photo on Hoyt’s Instagram feed, but isn’t readily apparent in subsequent photos. Hoyt didn’t respond to repeated email and telephone inquiries from The Daily Beast.</span></p><section class="RelatedArticles" data-nosnippet="" style="margin: 40px 0px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><h3 class="RelatedArticlesheading" style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin: 0px; line-height: 15px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" font-weight="font-weight" normal="normal">paradice said he and Rouz frequently clashed over their differing world views. </span></h3></section><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We kind of had a thing musically, but we were total opposites,” said Paradice. “When Trump was getting elected, he went into full sports coat mode. He had an indie style before—the whole blurred-line-of-sexuality thing—then he was wearing red ties and a suit. I said, ‘I’m not getting on the stage with Trump.’”</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In August 2017, Rouz said he was leaving the band to accept a job offer in San Diego, Paradice recalls. It was only recently that Paradice discovered what that job was, when a Facebook friend posted a One America video purporting to document a link between antifa and ISIS terrorists.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m thinking, there’s something familiar here, and then I go, ‘Oh shit, it’s fucking Kristian!’” said Paradice. “That’s my ex-guitarist… His bullshit propaganda is good enough now that they gave him a tiny bit of a platform.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rouz joined OAN at a time when his Russian employer was coming under heightened scrutiny over its role in Putin’s election interference, and its efforts to expand its American influence. <a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hell-of-working-at-trumps-new-favorite-tv-channel-one-america-news-network" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s; display: inline !important;" /></font></p><div class="FancylinksItemtop-left" style="display: inline !important; flex-direction: column;"><h3 class="FancylinksItemshort-headline" style="font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -0.5px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; line-height: 28px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-stretch: normal; display: inline !important;"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hell-of-working-at-trumps-new-favorite-tv-channel-one-america-news-network" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s; display: inline !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> July 2017, Sputnik contracted with a struggling Washington, D.C.-area radio station to begin broadcasting Sputnik content 24 hours a day. Until then, the station played bluegrass music. </font></a></h3></div><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><a class="TrackingLink FancylinksItemlink" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hell-of-working-at-trumps-new-favorite-tv-channel-one-america-news-network" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s; display: inline !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The move came just months after a declassified U.S. intelligence assessment named Sputnik, and its sister television outlet RT America, as players in Putin’s election-interference campaign. By September, the FBI </font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/sputnik-russian-news-agency-investigation-fbi-090024231.html" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">was investigating Sputnik</a> for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The next month, Twitter announced it would no longer accept ads from Sputnik or RT.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The FARA issue was resolved in November 2017, when Sputnik formally <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/360912-russian-news-outlet-sputnik-registers-with-doj-as" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">registered with the Justice Department</a> as an agent of a foreign power.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One America pushes some of the same false stories as Sputnik and RT, but with none of the legal entanglements. </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Founded and helmed by 77-year-old circuit-board millionaire Robert Herring Sr., OAN launched in 2013 as an answer to the chatty, opinionated content of mainstream cable-news channels—and a place for viewers too conservative for Fox News. Under Herring’s direction, the network embraced Trumpism enthusiastically, starting in 2016.</font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over time, the network became increasingly dedicated to conspiracy theories and fake news, and became <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">overtly supportive</a> of Russia’s global agenda. When Rouz joined, the network had recently shed a number of anchors and other staffers who’d bristled at the change. </font></p><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though it’s available in only a handful of cable markets, OAN’s viewership includes some influential figures, including the president of the United States. According to Media Matters, Trump has fallen for at least <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/04/24/citing-far-right-outlet-oann-trump-revives-conspiracy-theory-caused-international-incident-uk-2017/223552" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">two fake stories</a> after seeing them on OAN.</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>