influencergate

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oh look the russian agents trying to influence the election are using #cryptocurrency (this is my not-shocked-at-all face)

also popular YouTube influencers Lauren Southern, Tim Pool, #LaurenChen, and one of Benny Johnson/Dave Rubin "unknowingly" agreed to work for Russia for large sums of money ($100,000 per youtube video or a few million/year): https://x.com/ariehkovler/status/1831413692409487766

in particular the russian agents seem to have moved money through #Lithuania and used #BitPay to buy domains. i wrote a bunch about the Lithuanian central bank's attempts to shut down Russian money last year; it's here (an US company Crypto[.]com is involved): https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/cryptocom-or-crypto-dot-con

DOJ affidavit: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/doppelganger_affidavit_9.4.24.pdf

taking bets on whether Virtual Currency Exchange 1 ("VCE-1") is #Binance or #CryptoCom

#crypto #russia #uspol #election2024 #2024election #Trump #DonaldTrump #Putin #ukraine #VladímirPutin #TimPool #BennyJohnson #LaurenSouthern #DaveRubin #ChangeNow #TenetMedia #Politics #MAGA

cryptocurrency by using services like ChangeNOW and cryptocurrency mixing algorithms to obfuscate the originating cryptocurrency wallet used in their transactions.

80. Based on the commercially available cryptocurrency analysis tools?’ and analysis by an FBI cryptocurrency subject matter expert, these personas’ cryptocurrency transactions with NameSilo and Namecheap show that the transactions originated with a cluster of cryptocurrency wallets. In this case, the FBI determined that the aforementioned cluster of wallets was funded by an account at a virtual currency exchange (“VCE-17).2

81. Records received from VCE-1 pursuant to legal process revealed that the funding account belonged to an individual referred to herein as “Konstantin”.?° Those records showed that Konstantin provided Russian identification documents to VCE-1 and only accessed his account at 7 While the identity of the address owner is generally anonymous, law enforcement may be able to ascertain information about the identity of the owner of a particular address by analyzing the Blockchain. The analysis can also reveal additional addresses controlled by the same individual or entity. For example, a user or business may create many addresses to receive payments from different customers. When the user wants to transact the cryptocurrency that it has received, it may group those addresses together to send a single transaction. Law enforcement uses sophisticated, commercial services offered by several

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re: #InfluencerGate

even if tim pool and benny johnson were just morons who had no idea they had become #russian assets (doubtful) the indictment is pretty clear that lauren chen is 100% a russian asset.

she's appeared on a who's who of right wing media: Fox News, BlazeTV, RT, OANN, #Newsmax, The Daily Wire, Rebel Media, #PragerU and The Rubin Report.

an interesting twist is that recently #LaurenChen had kind of gone batshit anti-trump. she also had a big "repeal the 19th amendment" phase. some folks are claiming that means she was a plant to damage the right. all i can think of is that KGB quote "our brand is chaos".

worth at least seeing Chen's anti-trump tweets: https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1831453510438998498

(screenshots from: https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1831433336293880183)

#Russia #Russian #propaganda #uspol #freespeech #Uspolitics #Election2024 #2024Election #Republicans #TenetMedia #BennyJohnson #Ukraine #TimPool #LaurenSouthern #DaveRubin #FoxNews #OANN #RT #Newsmax #RebelMedia #LaurenChen #TenetMedia