Tenet Media's Lauren Chen speaks onstage during the 2019 Politicon at Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 26, 2019.Photo by Jason KempinGetty Images for Politicon/File

MPs want Canadians tied to alleged Russian propaganda scheme to testify at committee

The committee will invite Lauren Chen and Liam Donovan to testify, as well as Lauren Southern, who is among Tenet Media's cast of personalities

by · National Post

OTTAWA — MPs on the public safety and national security committee voted unanimously to launch an investigation into an alleged Russian ploy to dupe right-wing influencers into sowing division among Americans.

A U.S. indictment filed earlier this month charged two employees of RT, a Russian state-controlled media outlet, in a US$10-million scheme that purportedly used social media personalities to distribute content with Russian government messaging.

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