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They weren't getting anything like that from anything but the Russia Today money. It was more than 90% of the income of Tenet Media. None of their other advertising, merch or sponsorship was profitable.
Shifting the goal posts. The FBI is not social media. Nor is the DNC throwing their weight behind Hilary remotely the equivalent of Social media either propagating misinformation using targeted personal information, or censoring political opinions. Especially in respect to an adversarial foreign government.
It makes perfect sense, this case and the related cases of the "Good Old USA" and "Doppelganger" campaigns are being used to blacklist Russian propagandists and introduce more sanctions.
Pool and his associates would have a lot more plausible deniability if Pool didn't have such a big mouth and hadn't explicitly discussed this scenario (I wouldn't be surprised if the potential for self incrimination is the reason they are being interviewed).
Given that the RT foreign agents had access to the podcasts editing discord and used it to post Pro Russian videos and stories for discussion, to which even the commentators own editors commented that it seemed a bit too obviously like outright shilling (though they posted them anyway), their "I'm just a well paid victim" and had no idea, rings extremely false.
Imagine how much more he could project if he took his hat off.
