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Dopey prostitute Lauren Southern does not deny taking Kremlin cash, thinks other people need to reconsider their behavior

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Is it actually illegal in the US to be a media personality who is funded by Russian money? I don't know what the laws are about that.

Surely we wouldn't brand foreign journ*lism/propaganda organizations as threats and make it illegal to work with them, like those evil countries like Russia do... we're better than that, aren't we?

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>The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was enacted in 1938. FARA requires certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities. Disclosure of the required information facilitates evaluation by the government and the American people of the activities of such persons in light of their function as foreign agents. The FARA Unit of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) in the National Security Division (NSD) is responsible for the administration and enforcement of FARA.

https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara

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Being hella based in public for a living doesnt make you a foreign agent if russia decides they want to paypig you for it

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it does specifically exclude news or press services as long as they're not owned by the foreign state though: it talks about political activities but that means lobbying not propaganda, and they apparently removed the term propaganda in later revisions

so they're either going to need to prove that the russians actually owned tenet and were completely choosing the talking points

or they'll need to come up with some weird argument that having a podcast is lobbying because a congressman might listen to it

(i) The term "information-service employee" includes any person who is engaged in furnishing, disseminating, or publishing accounts, descriptions, information, or data with respect to the political, industrial, employment, economic, social, cultural, or other benefits, advantages, facts, or conditions of any country other than the United States or of any government of a foreign country or of a foreign political party or of a partnership, association, corporation, organization, or other combination of individuals organized under the laws of, or having its principal place of business in, a foreign country;

this is the most relevant language i guess? it's hard to imagine how that doesn't catch a news agency (if you report on russia in any way, aren't you now publishing facts about russia? maybe not if you just lie so no facts?), but maybe it's worded well enough to hit them and the govt just never tried that until now

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Where is the foreign agent listing for Haaretz or the like?

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Thanks for the knowledge, king.

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