There is a theory that the Tennent controversy is just a smeer campaign against non main stream media. An attempt to control what people hear by discouraging them from listening.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-collusion-redux-tenet-media-psy-op

Even if it's not an intentional made up operation, the MSM is 100% using this.

The next target is alternative social media networkslike Nostr and Mastodon.