Tenant Media

Extracted Attributes

• Purpose

  Promote pro-Kremlin narratives, sow discord in the US, shape public opinion in Western audiences

• Industry

  Media

• Description

  A network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues

• Founded Date

  2022-01-19

• Headquarters

  Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Legal Status

  Subject of a Department of Justice indictment

• Funding Amount

  10 million USD

• Funding Source

  Russian government (via RT operatives)

• Fictitious Sponsor

  Eduard Grigoriann

• Alias in Indictment

  US Company-1

• Parent Company (Canadian)

  Roaming Millennial Inc.

Timeline

• Tenant Media was incorporated in Tennessee. (Source: web_search_results)

  2022-01-19

• Founder-1 (Lauren Chen) began recruiting conservative personalities with lucrative offers for a new media outlet, while allegedly being paid by RT operatives. (Source: web_search_results)

  2023

• Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva became involved in the day-to-day operations of Tenant Media. (Source: web_search_results)

  2023-MM-DD

• The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against two RT employees, revealing Tenant Media's alleged Russian funding and control. (Source: web_search_results)

  2024-09-04

• YouTube terminated the Tenet Media channel and four channels operated by Lauren Chen as part of its efforts to combat coordinated influence operations. (Source: web_search_results)

  2024-09-05

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication in England until 1854. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to a friend about the events connected with his meeting a mysterious young widow, calling herself Helen Graham, who arrives with her young son and a servant to Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years. Contrary to the early 19th-century norms, she pursues an artist's career and makes an income by selling her pictures. Her strict seclusion soon gives rise to gossip in the neighbouring village and she becomes a social outcast. Gilbert comes to understand that she has fled with her son, whom she desperately wishes to save from his father's influence. The depiction of marital strife and women's professional work is mitigated by the strong moral message of Anne Brontë's belief in universal salvation. Most critics now consider The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to be one of the first feminist novels. Writer and suffragist May Sinclair, in 1913, said that "the slamming of [Helen's] bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England". In leaving her husband and taking away their child, Helen violates not only social conventions but also early 19th-century English law.

Web Search Results

• 2024 Tenet Media investigation - Wikipedia

  Tenet Media was an American right-wing media company founded by conservatives( Chen and Liam Donovan (her husband) in 2022. Describing itself as a "network of heterodox commentators that focus on western political and cultural issues",( Tenet Media featured six right-wing influencers: Matt Christiansen, Tayler Hansen, Benny Johnson "Benny Johnson (columnist)"), Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Lauren Southern.( [...] The indictment of the two Russians was revealing: "The unsealed indictment said the founders of the unidentified company — widely reported to be Tenet Media — knew their funding came from 'the Russians.'"( It alleges the Tenet founders masked their Russian funding by creating a fictitious persona of a wealthy European sponsor, "Eduard Grigoriann."( The charged Russian nationals, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, were involved in day-to-day operations of Tenet by fall 2023, using [...] What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Download QR code Expand all Edit interlanguage links Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikidata item From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Investigation into an American conservative media company 2024 Tenet Media investigationImage 4 Industry Media Founded January 2022 FoundersLauren Chen

• Meet the right-wing Canadian influencers accused of collaborating ...

  The media outlet was unnamed in the indictment, but it was clear from details within that the charges referred to Tenet Media, founded in 2023 by the Canadian influencer known as Lauren Chen and her husband, Liam Donovan. Among the people they hired last year was Chen's longtime friend and occasional collaborator Lauren Southern, another Canadian far-right influencer with a massive social media following. [...] In the few short months it operated, the outlet produced a steady stream of content favourable to Donald Trump, including an appearance by his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. Since the indictment was made public, several Tenet Media collaborators have come forward to claim they were unaware of how the company was funded. [...] But in the timeline laid out by U.S. officials, Founder-1 began recruiting conservative personalities with lucrative offers in 2023 for a new media outlet, all while being paid to do so by RT operatives. From the details provided in the indictment, Chen was allegedly billing RT in part through Roaming Millennial Inc., a company registered in the Montreal area, where her mother lived. Tenet Media was eventually registered in Tennessee as a subsidiary of Chen's Canadian company.

• Tennessee-based Tenet Media: A Russian propaganda project

  Tenet Media, a Burton Hills-based firm, includes right-wing political commentators Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson. The Tenet website dubs the group “a network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues” with the goal of “support[ing] creators who question institutions that believe themselves to be above questioning.” But according to the indictment, Tenet does a little more than it advertises. [...] A Tennessee-based media company is actually a “covert project” controlled by the Russian government to “shape the public opinion in ‘Western audiences’” according to an indictment in the U.S. District Court for Southern New York. [...] “The Justice Department has charged two employees of RT, a Russian state-controlled media outlet, in a $10 million scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in a press release. “The Justice Department will not tolerate attempts by an authoritarian regime to exploit our country’s free exchange of ideas in order to further its propaganda efforts covertly, and our investigation into this matter

• Right-Wing Influencer Network Tenet Media Allegedly ... - WIRED

  A Tennessee-based media network that produces shows for high-profile right-wing influencers such as Benny Johnson and Tim Pool was largely funded by Russian state-backed news network RT, according to a federal indictment against two RT employees that the US Department of Justice unsealed on Wednesday. The DOJ claims the US company—which WIRED, along with other news outlets, was able to identify as Tenet Media but goes unnamed in the indictment—posted hundreds of videos on social media that [...] With the tagline “Fearless voices live here,” Tenet Media’s network includes online creators known for their right-wing politics, including Johnson, Pool, Dave Rubin, and Lauren Southern. In addition to the followings of the network’s individual creators, which collectively number in the millions, Tenet Media itself boasts more than 315,000 followers on YouTube and thousands more across Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok. [...] The Justice Department identifies Tenet Media only as “US Company-1” but notes in the indictment that the company describes itself as a “network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues.” That language is identical to the description on Tenet Media’s website. Tenet and Chen did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

• U.S. says Russia funded media company that paid right-wing ...

  Recordswith the Tennessee Secretary of State's Office show that Tenet Media incorporated on Jan. 19, 2022, the same date of incorporation mentioned in the indictment, and is headquartered in Nashville. It was founded by Liam Donovan and his wife, Lauren Chen. The founders are referred to as Founder-1 and Founder-2 in the indictment and prosecutors said they jointly run the company. [...] Though the company is not named in the indictment, prosecutors said that it describes itself as a "network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues" and features six commentators as its "talent." Tenet Media uses the same phrase in its descriptionon its website, and other details in the indictment align with the firm. Its website lists six right-wing personalities, including Dave Rubin, who has more than 2.4 million YouTube subscribers; Tim Pool, a podcast [...] On Thursday evening, a YouTube spokesperson told CBS News in a statement that "after careful review" it was "terminating the Tenet Media channel and four channels operated by its owner, Lauren Chen, as part of our ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations." The investigation into the matter was ongoing, according to YouTube.