Russia Backs Anti-Porn Propaganda?

Declaring, “Pornhub is pure evil,” YouTube influencer Lauren Chen, has gone as far as to say the porn tube site is a source for pedophilia. A wickedly serious accusation to be sure coming from Chen (and others who have said the same thing) she has been calling for an overall ban on porn piggybacking on her charge of the harmful effect Pornhub has on children. At the end of last year, Chen put up a video also claiming that Pornhub is trying to “get straight men into gay and trans porn.”

But let’s take a little look-see at who Lauren Chen is and who she might be connected to, as her show has seen cancellation due to a recent investigation by The U.S. Department of Justice.

The DoJ vs Lauren Chen and Tenet Media

It seems that Lauren Chen might have as many layers to her crusade as she claims Pornhub has intentions under their “evil” clips. Just last week the United States Department of Justice indicted two Russian employees for illegally operating with the conservative YouTube network Tenet Media. As the Washington Post reported, “Rather than being a domestic network of social media accounts, prosecutors allege that Tenet was a foreign influence operation funded with roughly $10 million in Russian money.”

Tenet Media, launched in 2023, was founded by conservative influencer Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan.

Does this then mean that Tenet Media could be connected to the alleged Russia propaganda operation the DoJ is now investigating?

In the Post report above, when it comes to this supposed Russian finding, lots of Tenet's top talent claim they "did not know the money was coming from Russia.” But prosecutors are indeed claiming that bigwigs like Chen and her husband surely knew where their funding was originating and even “privately acknowledged in messages to each other that their backers were Russian.”

Last week, YouTube terminated Tenet Media and another four channels linked to Lauren Chen. They released a statement saying: “Following an indictment from the US Department of Justice and after careful review, we are 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.”

Chen, who also worked as a contributor for Glenn Beck’s BlazeTV has also seen her contract terminated with Beck’s baby. 

Epidemic?

According to this CNN report, the talent amassed across Tenet has brought in over six million YouTube subscribers. But the same report reveals how deeply the Russian connection might lay in Tenet and how there is much more to Tenet’s stance beyond just the eradication of porn.

In the above CNN piece, Nina Jankowicz, a co-founder of the American Sunlight Project, states what we all should be aware of when it comes to any and all media outfits these days… “they post rage bait that will perform well, rake in views and likes, and make their ‘producers’ happy.”

Pornography is technically illegal in Russia, with any depiction of LGBTQ+ sexual acts also criminalized in the name of Putin’s “Russian values.”