If it were a movie, it might feel a little too cliched: Russia funnelling money through a maze of shell accounts, a ploy to push stories favourable to a foreign power, and a supergroup of telegenic stars of the right wing media-sphere.
At least, that’s if the allegations laid out in an explosive 32-page American indictment are proven true. The claim is this: that a fledgling Tennessee-based media company took $10 million (U.S.) — provided by Russians who they all claimed was a fictional European businessman — in order to recruit a gaggle of high-profile YouTubers and post videos that, at best, inflamed existing American social divides and in some cases pushed untrue version of news events designed to paint the Kremlin in an advantageous light.
