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Right-wing media company Blaze Media has ended its relationship with contributor Lauren Chen one day after the United States Department of Justice alleged that she took cash from Russia to covertly push pro-Kremlin propaganda. Semafor reports that Blaze Media CEO Tyler Cardon said that Chen’s contract “has been terminated” after she was implicated in a scheme to get conservative influencers such as Tim Pool and Dave Rubin to unwittingly parrot Russian talking points about the war in Ukraine and other topics. Neither Chen nor her husband, Liam Donovan, were charged in the alleged scheme, which …

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