Hmmm: Blaze Fires Lauren Chen After DoJ's Russia-Interference Indictment

“Lauren Chen was an independent contractor, whose contract has been terminated,” Blaze Media CEO Tyler Cardon said in an email to Semafor.

Chen and her husband, Liam Donovan, are the co-founders of Tenet Media, a previously obscure media company that paid eye-popping sums to right-wing influencers to produce videos that echoed Russian propaganda and other right-wing talking points, according to an indictment.

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She also contributed videos to BlazeTV, an arm of Blaze Media, which was founded by the former Fox News host and talk radio figure Glenn Beck, which was not mentioned in Wednesday’s indictment.

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Neither of them were named in the indictment, but it did apparently reference Tenet Media's mission statement without explicitly identifying them. Tim Pool issued a statement late yesterday distancing himself from Tenet, and says that if the allegations are true, then he was victimized by the scheme. 

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